Blockchain Governance and The Role of Trust Service Providers: The TrustedChain® Network

Blockchain e a Perspectiva Tecnológica para a Administração Pública: Uma Revisão Sistemática

“…Given the distributed way data is stored in Blockchain, applications related to logistics, land properties, electricity, government payments and smart contracts turn out to be appropriate, since the different actors involved in each process would benefit from the distributed ledger (Atzori, 2018;Buth, Wieczorek, & Verbong, 2019;Engin & Treleaven, 2019;Kossow, 2019;Li, Greenwood, & Kassem, 2019;Marchionni, 2018;Maza, 2019;Ølnes, Ubacht, & Janssen, 2017;Thakur, Doja, Dwivedi, Ahmad, & Khadanga, 2019). Polls, Supply Chain, Digital Identity and Building Construction share Blockchain's data processing efficiency; the technology stands out for its security in storing data, as they are important information, be it for social control -elections and document maintenance -or for the control of buildings and food and/or medication, and the public administration must control or regulate these processes (Abelseth, 2018;Johnson, 2019;Kossow, 2019;Lander & Cooper, 2017;Li et al, 2019;Tseng, Liao, Chong, & Liao, 2018).…”

“…Dealing with a more structural issue, some findings point towards new models of state regulation when it comes to enterprises using the Blockchain as an instrument, making use of the concept of stakeholders for regulatory deliberation (Scholl & Bolívar, 2019) or the application of the sandboxes model, which eases current legislation for businesses to apply advanced technologies, such as Blockchain, without being inhibited by legal rigidity, but at the same time supervised by the government (Atzori, 2018). There are also proposals for more radical changes in institutional processes, especially state ones, removing from them the main control (Berg, Markey-Towler, &…”

The political imaginaries of blockchain projects: discerning the expressions of an emerging ecosystem

“…It followed an internal logic and progression, which had a life of its own and premised societal structures without (Kelly 2010). Even though this sort of technological determinism was dismissed by subsequent constructivist claims which highlighted the role of social groups, contexts, and other perceptions of meaning (Hackett et al 2008;Lynch 2008;Kline 2015), the corresponding "effects and autonomy of technology are neglected" (Dafoe 2015(Dafoe , p. 1049 (Atzori 2018). Without identifying and conceptualizing this potential with regards to our agency, it is impossible to open up techno-political evolution to achieving any transformation that leads to a more equitable political system.…”

Blockchain and Public Record Keeping: Of Temples, Prisons, and the (Re)Configuration of Power

“…Moreover, unlike in constitutional governments where constituents may dispute a law without having to revoke their citizenship, constituents (i.e., users of public blockchains) face high exit costs if they disagree with the governance rules: either they accept the new rules and continue to participate in the blockchain system, or they reject them and have to exit the blockchain system entirely (i.e., in cases of a "hard fork" in the blockchain). Current blockchain governance arrangements create a techno plutocracy that foments imbalances of power between developers and users and a tendency toward economic individualism over a common good (Gervais et al, 2013;Atzori, 2017). Since the legitimacy of blockchains as keepers of public records depends on the legitimacy of blockchain juridical systems, it would seem that public, permissionless blockchains still have a far way to go to be fully worthy of public trust to a degree that would topple the nation state as the dominant juridical system and public record keeper.…”

“…As a distributed ledger, blockchain technology is, at its heart, a record keeping technology. Without going into technical details of its operation, aspects of which will be discussed later in this paper, and which are quite varied across different blockchain platforms in any case, it is in large part due to the intended making and keeping of tamper-resistant and transparent recordings of transactions that is said to make blockchains trustworthy (Nakamoto, 2008;Peters and Panayi, 2016;Atzori, 2017). These characteristics are arguably what allow blockchain records to serve as a basis of trust (Vigna and Casey, 2019), in particular in human social, economic and political relations-the focus of this paper.…”