Do libertarians dream of electric coins? The material embeddedness of Bitcoin

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The Social Life of Bitcoin (2018, background): “Bitcoin aims at both forms of disintermediation (Karlstrøm, 2014: 28), and it is the promise of both that accounts for a substantial amount of its political appeal.”
How is Bitcoin Money? (2016, background): “Furthermore, Bitcoin seem to be underpinned by an ideological superstructure heavily informed by monetarist and libertarian critiques of the conventional money system (Karlstrøm, 2014).”
Why do businesses go crypto? An empirical analysis of initial coin offerings (2018, unknown): “…to analyze the political economy of the phenomenon (Ametrano, 2016; Bjerg, 2015; Böhme, Christin, Edelman, & Moore, 2015; Dwyer, 2015; Ennis, 2016; Karlstrøm, 2014; Lo & Wang, 2014) and explore its impact on traditional market failures stemming from information asymmetry and moral hazard…”
Price Fluctuations and the Use of Bitcoin: An Empirical Inquiry (2015, unknown): “As noted by Karlstrøm [81] common features of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are: (1) the money supply is controlled by an algorithm, the workings of which are in the public domain, and which is independent of central bank monetary policy; (2) verification of transactions is decentralized and nonhier”