Decentralised Digital Security: Code, Crisis, Community

By Kelsie Nabben

Decentralised digital security offers a compelling exploration of how digital security is practiced, organised and contested within blockchain communities. Drawing on immersive digital ethnography, the book examines how decentralised technologies - rooted in cryptography and designed to operate without central control - depend on not just technical systems but social infrastructures for incentive alignment and coordination. Through first-hand case studies, it reveals the white hat hackers, social infrastructures and ecosystem-wide efforts that make blockchain security possible. At a time of growing concern over digital security, the book provides a timely investigation into how security is enacted across decentralised networks, and what these practices reveal about digital security more broadly.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526187094
• ISBN13: 9781526187093
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"