Blockchain governance

• Verfasst von: De Filippi, Primavera [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Reijers, Wessel [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Mannan, Morshed [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Blockchain governance
• Mitwirkende: Doty, April [ErzählerIn]
• Verf.angabe: Primavera De Filippi, Wessel Reijers, and Morshed Mannan
• Ausgabe: [First edition].
• Verlagsort: [Place of publication not identified]
• Verlag: Ascent Audio
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: 1 online resource (1 sound file (5 hr., 3 min.))
• Fussnoten: Online resource; title from title details screen (O’Reilly, viewed September 10, 2024)
• ISBN: 978-1-6637-3619-2
• ISBN: 1-6637-3619-7
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Chaînes de blocs ; Politique gouvernementale
• Sach-SW: Gouvernance d'Internet
• Sach-SW: Technologie et droit
• Sach-SW: Audiobooks
• Sach-SW: Livres audio
• K10plus-PPN: 1903890780
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext
• Lokale URL UB: Bibliothek der Medizinischen Fakultät Mannheim der Universität Heidelberg
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Abstract

How can digital cash truly be "trustless"? What does it mean that blockchain offers a new paradigm of the "rule of code"? How are decisions made when a blockchain system faces an emergency, and who gets to make those decisions? In Blockchain Governance, Primavera De Filippi, Wessel Reijers, and Morshed Mannan offer answers to these questions and more, in an accessible, critical overview of legal and political issues related to blockchain technology. Blockchain-based systems offer new ways of organizing digital cash, "smart" contracts to execute transactions, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to collect art, and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) to coordinate humans and machines. What these applications have in common is that they govern the behavior of people and artificial agents through distributed systems. Drawing from their extensive experience in researching blockchain technologies and communities, the authors discuss the origins of Bitcoin in cypher-anarchism and extropianism, spectacular events like the million-dollar theft of the DAO Attack, and the hostile takeover of the Steem platform. While engaging with political and legal thinkers such as Hobbes, Kelsen, and the Ostroms, these narratives explore how blockchain governance problematizes fundamental concepts such as rule of law, sovereignty, legality, legitimacy, and polycentric governance.