Blockchain Governance Challenges: Beyond Libertarianism

This essay considers the ideological context of blockchain technology. technology is often celebrated for its potential decentralization, distribution, privacy, and a lack intermediaries coordinators transactions general governance. Because these features, technology, and, in particular, most famous inauguration—the bitcoin blockchain—is frequently identified with libertarianism. In this essay, we argue that much more complicated. addition to unraveling number background ideologies their role raise ontological issue concerning relationship ideology These matters have implications for, among other things, approach should be taken blockchain's governance, as well how international lawyers may “foreign”-seeming phenomenon has proponents from European Central Bank United Nations (not, however, forgetting private sector nor digital underground).