Blockchain, Law and Governance

Blockchain, Law and Governance
Author: Benedetta Cappiello
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2020-10-21
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3030527220
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This volume explores from a legal perspective, how blockchain works. Perhaps more than ever before, this new technology requires us to take a multidisciplinary approach. The contributing authors, which include distinguished academics, public officials from important national authorities, and market operators, discuss and demonstrate how this technology can be a driver of innovation and yield positive effects in our societies, legal systems and economic/financial system. In particular, they present critical analyses of the potential benefits and legal risks of distributed ledger technology, while also assessing the opportunities offered by blockchain, and possible modes of regulating it. Accordingly, the discussions chiefly focus on the law and governance of blockchain, and thus on the paradigm shift that this technology can bring about.

Blockchain Regulation and Governance in Europe

Blockchain Regulation and Governance in Europe
Author: Michèle Finck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2018-12-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108474756
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Finck examines the emergence of blockchains (and other forms of distributed ledger technologies) and the implications for regulation and governance.

Blockchain Governance

Blockchain Governance
Author: Primavera De Filippi
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2024-08-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0262379864
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An engaging and comprehensive exploration of how fundamental ideas in political and legal thought shape the governance of blockchain communities, and are, in turn, shaped by blockchain technology. 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, now the foundation of a multi-billion-dollar industry. Moving beyond the hype, they show how blockchain offers fertile ground for experimentation with radically new ways to govern people and institutions. Blockchain-based systems, like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tezos, and countless others, 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.

Blockchain and the Public Sector

Blockchain and the Public Sector
Author: Christopher G. Reddick
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2021-01-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3030557464
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This book discusses blockchain technology and its potential applications in digital government and the public sector. With its robust infrastructure and append-only record system, blockchain technology is being increasingly employed in the public sector, specifically where trustworthiness and security are of importance. Written by leading scholars and practitioners, this edited volume presents challenges, benefits, regulations, frameworks, taxonomies, and applications of blockchain technology in the public domain. Specifically, the book analyzes the implementation of blockchain technologies in the public sector and the potential reforms it would bring. It discusses emerging technologies and their role in the implementation of blockchain technologies in the public sector. The book details the role of blockchain in the creation of public value in the delivery of public sector services. The book analyzes effects, impacts, and outcomes from the implementation of blockchain technologies in the public sector in select case studies. Providing up-to-date information on important developments regarding blockchain in government around the world, this volume will appeal to academics, researchers, policy-makers, public managers, international organizations, and technical experts looking to understand how blockchain can enhance public service delivery.

Blockchain Technologies and Applications for Digital Governance

Blockchain Technologies and Applications for Digital Governance
Author: Nijalingappa, Pradeep
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2021-11-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1799884953
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Since its inception, blockchain has evolved to become a crucial trending technology that massively impacts the fast-paced digital world. It has been a game-changing technology that is underpinned with cryptocurrencies like Ethereum and Bitcoin that eventually closed the doors for hacking activities. As blockchain is utilized across areas such as banking, voting, finance, healthcare, and manufacturing, it is important to examine the current trends, difficulties, opportunities, and future directions in order to utilize its full potential. Blockchain Technologies and Applications for Digital Governance addresses the impacts and future trends of blockchain, particularly for digital governance, and demonstrates the applications of blockchain in digital governance using case studies. Covering a range of topics from cybersecurity to real estate tokenization, it is ideal for industry professionals, researchers, academicians, instructors, practitioners, and students.

Bitcoin and Beyond

Bitcoin and Beyond
Author: Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2017-11-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351814079
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Since the launch of Bitcoin in 2009 several hundred different ‘cryptocurrencies’ have been developed and become accepted for a wide variety of transactions in leading online commercial marketplaces and the ‘sharing economy’, as well as by more traditional retailers, manufacturers, and even by charities and political parties. Bitcoin and its competitors have also garnered attention for their wildly fluctuating values as well as implication in international money laundering, Ponzi schemes and online trade in illicit goods and services across borders. These and other controversies surrounding cryptocurrencies have induced varying governance responses by central banks, government ministries, international organizations, and industry regulators worldwide. Besides formal attempts to ban Bitcoin, there have been multifaceted efforts to incorporate elements of blockchains, the peer-to-peer technology underlying cryptocurrencies, in the wider exchange, recording, and broadcasting of digital transactions. Blockchains are being mobilized to support and extend an array of governance activities. The novelty and breadth of growing blockchain-based activities have fuelled both utopian promises and dystopian fears regarding applications of the emergent technology to Bitcoin and beyond. This volume brings scholars of anthropology, economics, Science and Technology Studies, and sociology together with GPE scholars in assessing the actual implications posed by Bitcoin and blockchains for contemporary global governance. Its interdisciplinary contributions provide academics, policymakers, industry practitioners and the general public with more nuanced understandings of technological change in the changing character of governance within and across the borders of nation-states.

Blockchain Technology in Corporate Governance

Blockchain Technology in Corporate Governance
Author: Kiran Sood
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2022-10-13
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1119865220
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BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY IN CORPORATE GOVERANCE This book investigates the recent applications of blockchain technology in financial services, energy sector, and summarizes regulatory responses, to set the scene for future work on corporate governance. This edited book highlights the current governance framework for the blockchain and its development as a self-governing framework. It discusses blockchain technology’s effectiveness in developing solutions for supply chains, trade finance, and banking. Moreover, it shows how banking and financial institutions are the major beneficiaries of this decentralized technology. Furthermore, the book outlines the link between company governance theories, regulatory, ethical, and social controls, and blockchain adoption. It also investigates the recent applications of blockchain technology in financial services, the health sector, and the energy sector. Audience The book is specially designed for researchers, industrialists, engineers, graduate students, and policymakers, who aspire to learn, discuss, and carry out further research into the opportunities offered by blockchain and the possible ways of regulating it.

Building Decentralized Trust

Building Decentralized Trust
Author: Victoria L. Lemieux
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2021-01-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030544141
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This volume brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars from diverse fields including computer science, engineering, archival science, law, business, psychology, economics, medicine and more to discuss the trade-offs between different “layers” in designing the use of blockchain/Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) for social trust, trust in data and records, and trust in systems. Blockchain technology has emerged as a solution to the problem of trust in data and records, as well as trust in social, political and economic institutions, due to its profound potential as a digital trust infrastructure. Blockchain is a DLT in which confirmed and validated sets of transactions are stored in blocks that are chained together to make tampering more difficult and render records immutable. This book is dedicated to exploring and disseminating the latest findings on the relationships between socio-political and economic data, record-keeping, and technical aspects of blockchain.

Blockchain in e-Governance

Blockchain in e-Governance
Author: Rajesh Dhuddu
Publisher: BPB Publications
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2021-03-13
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9390684463
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Blockchain: Preferred technology that the world is looking for!Ê Ê KEY FEATURESÊÊ _ Understand the design elements of an enterprise Blockchain and National Blockchain backbone framework and the steps involved in implementing the same. _ Prominent use cases across different domain, in different countries. _ Examine how Blockchain is used by leading countries like Estonia, Thailand, Dubai etc.. and how it can be leveraged to improve significantly the experience of citizens in availing Government services like citizen records, civil supplies, Land records , Smart city services and many more. Ê DESCRIPTION We are increasingly faced with several new technologies like IOT, AI & Analytics, Machine learning, 3D printing, AR/VR, Robotics, Drones making inroads into several areas of our corporate & personal lives. All these technologies are offering an unprecedented level of automation that is augmenting our performance & lifestyles as well. Ê As these technologies are leveraging the centralised approach of aggregation & economies of scale to facilitate efficiencies that provide a high level of training data, these are also increasingly becoming vulnerable to sophisticated cyber-attacks from actors searching for lucrativeÊ targets, to hold them at ransom. Ê Given this, How are we supposed to safeguard burgeoning investments into cutting-edge intelligent analytics driven investments of Industry 4.0? Ê Enters Blockchain with its potential of decentralisation and cryptographically protected and distributed ledgers that provide a mechanism to nullify the action Cybercriminals and their attacks. By eliminating Single points of failure that are resident in Centralised era, Blockchain seems to be the preferred technology that the world is looking for!Ê Ê WHAT YOU WILL LEARNÊ Blockchain the underlying technology that pioneered Bitcoin and resultant innovations in Global Payments industry has made its impact much beyond the core finance domain it transformed initially. Ê Blockchain, one of the latest in the disruptive technologies is seeing a surge in adoption owing to adoption by Start-ups.. There is a need to come out with a systemic thinking approach to leverage this new paradigm. Hence, let us delve into design thinking approach to solve the problems usingÊ Blockchain. Ê ÊWHO THIS BOOK IS FORÊ Book will take a look at the Global adoption and implementation aspects & their challenges. This book will be very useful to Blockchain Subject Matter Experts, Consultants, CXOs and Government officials and one who is interested in exploring blockchain technology. It will appeal to Developers, Architects, Technology Managers and Executives who wish to build new or transform their existing applications to a blockchain based system to gain efficiencies in Cost, Scalability, Security and Robustness. Ê TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Blockchain- A Primer 2. Blockchain Platforms for Real life Applications 3.Types of Problems Blockchain can solveÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ 4. Design Thinking & Blockchain Solution design 5. Blockchain and Governments- Examples and Case studies 6. Blockchain Countries 7. Key Government applications of Blockchain 8. Blockchain Application patterns for Integration and Interoperability 9. Applying Design Thinking to BlockchainÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ 10. DesirableÊ elements in a Blockchain ConsortiumÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ 11. Implementation of Blockchain projects by Governments 12. Designing a Blockchain Project- Case study 13. Challenges and Limitations of implementing Blockchain solutions 14. Encouraging Blockchain adoption & Educating the new generation for adoption