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Financialization x Gamblification

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dc.contributor.authorFrench, Martin
dc.contributor.authorSwiffen, Amy
dc.contributor.authorBélanger, Raphaël
dc.contributor.authorFiedler, Ingo
dc.contributor.authorBordeleau, Erik
dc.contributor.authorHurl, Chris
dc.contributor.authorHoebanx, Pauline
dc.contributor.authorChugh, Neha
dc.contributor.authorHastings, Colin
dc.contributor.authorJourdenais, Pierre-Olivier
dc.contributor.authorKairouz, Sylvia
dc.contributor.authorLajeunesse, Marc
dc.contributor.authorMonson, Eva
dc.contributor.authorZanescu, Andrei
dc.contributor.institutionInstituto de Filosofia da NOVA (IFILNOVA)
dc.contributor.pblUniversity of Alberta Library
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-20T14:21:14Z
dc.date.available2026-01-20T14:21:14Z
dc.date.issued2025-03-24
dc.descriptionUID/00183/2025 https://doi.org/10.54499/UID/00183/2025
dc.description.abstractThe blurring of gambling and crypto-finance reflects a wider set of complex social transformations. To help parse these transformations, we discuss two key concepts: financialization and gamblification. On their own, these concepts are useful—if insufficient—for the critical theorization of cryptocurrency exchanges. Taken together, they help highlight the deep interrelationship of cryptocurrency exchanges and gambling in our contemporary moment. Reflecting on the example of BitMEX, a centralized cryptocurrency exchange notable for its gamified interface, we argue that cryptocurrency discourse may operate to obscure the structural mechanisms that transfer wealth from users to platform operators while further embedding speculative risk-taking deep within everyday life. Our article first notes some of the resonances in the ways that cryptocurrency exchanges and gambling markets are organized. We also indicate that cryptocurrency exchange—like gambling—draws some of its appeal from a backdrop of uncertainty and vast inequity in contemporary capitalism. Then, taking advantage of the ‘analytic multiplier effects’ that come from holding the concepts of financialization and gamblification together, we work to decrypt some of the obfuscating elements of cryptocurrency discourse.en
dc.description.versionpublishersversion
dc.description.versionpublished
dc.format.extent20
dc.format.extent1302310
dc.identifier.doi10.29173/cgs199
dc.identifier.issn2563-190X
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 112466436
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 7aa3664a-fcfa-436f-bddf-6bdc4d217100
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-8888-3340/work/203082314
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/199546
dc.identifier.urlhttps://criticalgamblingstudies.com/index.php/cgs/article/view/199
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/Avaliação UID 2023%2F2024/UID%2F00183%2F2025/PT
dc.subjectCryptocurrency exchanges
dc.subjectFinancialization
dc.subjectGamblification
dc.subjectInvesting
dc.subjectBetting
dc.titleFinancialization x Gamblificationen
dc.title.subtitleKey Concepts for the Critique of Cryptocurrency Exchangesen
dc.typejournal article
degois.publication.firstPage37
degois.publication.issue2
degois.publication.lastPage56
degois.publication.titleCritical Gambling Studies
degois.publication.volume5
dspace.entity.typePublication
rcaap.rightsopenAccess

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