Timothy Bourbotte is a PhD student at LabSIC, supervised by Philippe Bouquillion, Hélène Bourdeloie, and Emmanuelle Savignac. His research focuses on industrial strategies within the blockchain environment, with particular attention to the social, technological, and economic stakes of cryptocurrencies.
This sector, advocated by its proponents as an evolving version of the Web called Web3, is caught in a tension between emancipatory discourse and profit-driven industrial developments. The latter contribute to establishing social relations (gender, age, social class, ethnic origin, etc.) comparable to those observed in other areas of the Web.