blockchain technology on financial regulation. After an initial study of the underlying principles driving both processes, we … notion of functional equivalence as it applies to the technology to analyse whether the use of blockchain technology in the …

Claims blockchain is more than just ICT innovation, but facilitates new types of economic organization and governance …. Suggests two approaches to economics of blockchain: innovation-centred and governance-centred. Argues that the governance … approach — based in new institutional economics and public choice economics — is most promising, because it models blockchain …

challenged by the advent of blockchain technology. Yet, unlike the Internet, which has evolved into an increasingly centralised … system that was largely brought within the reach of the law, blockchain technology still resists regulation and is thus … them. This article investigates whether blockchain technology can indeed be qualified as alegal, and the extent to which …

Blockchain technology was first elaborated as a part of the Bitcoin network, a decentralizedpayment system and virtual … innovation of blockchain technology is that it provides us with the ability to experiment with new organizational structures and …, the technology potentially allows for the creation of so-called decentralized blockchain-based organizations, enabling …

corporate surveillance than their centralized counterparts. This paper analyses the case of Bitcoin and other blockchain … of end-users. On the one hand, the pseudonymous nature of many blockchain-based networks allows for people to transact on … networks is such that anyone can retrieve the history of all transactions performed on a blockchain and rely on big data …

This article introduces the symposium “Toward a Philosophy of Blockchain,” which provides a philosophical contemplation … of blockchain technology, the digital ledger software underlying cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, for the secure … philosophical scholarship on a new topic, blockchain technology, from a variety of perspectives. The philosophical themes discussed …

immutable decentralised public ledger. When the ledger records money, a blockchain is a cryptocurrency, such as bitcoin. But … blockchain-based economic coordination and governance. We claim that blockchains are an instance of institutional evolution …

This paper analyses the use of blockchain technology to support the governance of commons-pool resources, as studied by … Elinor Ostrom. It argues that the technological guarantees of blockchain technology—in terms of ex-ante automation and ex …