Decentralised Digital Security

* Book: Kelsie Nabben, Decentralised Digital Security: Code, Crisis, Community (Manchester University Press, 2026).

URL = https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526187093

Description

"Kelsie Nabben's new book reframes decentralised security as a social achievement rather than a property of code. Drawing on years of digital ethnography, the BlockchainGov researcher shows security as continuous socio-technical work, centred on making insecurity legible so communities can coordinate around it. Through white-hat responders, incident command structures, playbooks and the not-for-profit Security Alliance (SEAL), she traces how crypto communities respond to large-scale hacks and maintain everyday resilience. Cryptography is only part of the answer. The rest is social infrastructure: reputation, norms, pre-agreed rescue permissions and shared practice."