Overview
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. Blockchain-based systems 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.
Full Product Details
Author: Primavera de Filippi ,
Wessel Reijers ,
Mannan Morshed ,
April Doty
Publisher: Ascent Audio
Imprint: Ascent Audio
ISBN: 9798874826420
Publication Date: 20 August 2024
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
Primavera De Filippi is research director at the National Center of Scientific Research in Paris and faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard. She is coauthor of Blockchain and the Law. Wessel Reijers is postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. He is the author of Narrative and Technology Ethics and coeditor of the edited volume Interpreting Technology. Morshed Mannan is postdoctoral research fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute. He is coeditor of Log Out: A Glossary of Technological Resistance and Decentralization, coauthor of the COALA DAO Model Law, and coauthor of Freedom of Establishment for Companies in Europe. April Doty is a classically trained actress with a BFA in acting from Syracuse University. Born in Virginia, seasoned in London, and settled in Spain, April Doty brings the sound of a rich and varied life experience to her narration. April's voice is lively and engaging; she brings colorful, believable characters to life in a variety of genres, but especially YA, mystery and suspense, LGBT, and literary fiction. April works from her home studio on Spain's Costa del Sol. When she isn't narrating, she's writing, singing, or hiking in the mountains with her partner, Sarah.
