Prospects of blockchain governance: Understanding key public values, principles, challenges, and opportunities

Abstract

The article elaborates on the potential of blockchain technology to transform governance in different sectors of economy. The research primarily relies on rich empirical data that have been collected from semi‐structured interviews and focus group studies with professional blockchain developers. In this regard, the article aims to answer the following questions: How could blockchain governance conceptually work? How could one illustrate schematically key principles of its implementation? What are the key features of blockchain governance? Why are they important? What benefits could the concept bring to different sectors of economy if its potential is realized? What are the typical barriers and limitations of blockchain governance? What could be recommended to overcome them?This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

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“…Here, they describe the measures the EU is undertaking to protect the confidentiality of European data while also pushing back on the dominance of US-based providers. Keeping with the infrastructure theme, Kassen (2023) turns our attention to blockchain technologies in their article, Prospects of blockchain governance: Understanding key public values, principles, challenges and opportunities. This paper addresses the central questions: How could blockchain governance conceptually work?…”