Decentralised digital security offers a compelling exploration of how digital security is practiced, organised and contested within blockchain communities. Drawing on immersive digital ethnography, it examines how decentralised technologies 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, as well as broader lessons for living with insecurity.
Decentralised digital security: Code, crisis, community
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Decentralised digital security offers a compelling exploration of how digital security is practiced, organised and contested within blockchain communities. Drawing on immersive digital ethnography, it examines how decentralised technologies 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, as well as broader lessons for living with insecurity.
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May 13, 2026
Chapter 7: Epilogue - Living with insecurity
<p>This epilogue returns to the guiding question, 'what can decentralised technology communities teach us about digital security?’, and argues that while decentralised security practices do not offer a ready-made solution, they provide a powerful lens for reimagining how we organise, incentivise, and govern security in a world where insecurity is the norm rather than the exception. This lens reveals repeatable patterns that underpins decentralised responses to insecurity: (i) Infrastructure and actors that renders insecurity legible and makes action possible, (ii) norms that guide who gets to act, under what conditions, and on whose behalf, (iii) controls that anchor best-practice responses and coordination mechanisms, and (iv) feedback loops that translate lessons learned into updated tools, expectations, and community standards.</p>
May 13, 2026
Chapter 6: Bybit – The largest hack in history
<p>This chapter tells the story of the largest hack in history. Drawing on insider perspectives from within the security community, it traces black hats, white hats, and many shades of grey in action, revealing how incident response is coordinated across the ecosystem, when it succeeds in protecting the interests of end-users, and when it fails due to selfish ambition. The chapter underscores the enduring reality that insecurity is a permanent condition. It also reveals the emergent infrastructure, norms, controls, and feedback loops that scaffold how decentralised communities collectively respond to insecurity.</p>
May 13, 2026
Chapter 5: The geopolitics of blockchain security
<p>This chapter moves beyond individual hacks and exploits to examine how decentralised security operates at scale, with a focus on the intersection between cryptocurrency security and the geopolitics of blockchain infrastructure. It interrogates physical security, organised crime and state-backed actors – particularly the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group – as they target decentralised finance systems. By tracing how these Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors exploit blockchain technologies for illicit purposes, it reveals the broader implications for global security and policy. In doing so, this chapter shows how geopolitical tensions increasingly manifest through digital infrastructures, shaping the vulnerabilities, responses and power dynamics that characterise the insecurity of blockchain ecosystems today. In doing so, it shows how blockchain systems function as geopolitical battlegrounds where sovereignty, accountability and security are contested and coordinated.</p>
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