Blockchain and the Digital Economy
Blockchain and the Digital Economy Blockchain technology has the potential to disrupt digital interaction in our economy and society. However, the implications of this potential new technological…
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Blockchain and the Digital Economy
Blockchain technology has the potential to disrupt digital interaction in our economy and society. However, the implications of this potential new technological paradigm have not yet reached wider public debate, nor have economic and societal implications been adequately explored.Distributed ledger technologies and blockchains stem from an ideological open-source movement and facilitate the exchange of assets via a complementary technical layer on top of the internet. The technology's rapid and dynamic technical development is driven by startups and incumbents alike, creating a myriad of applications across economic and societal domains.
At the same time, community-owned neutral networks could facilitate a re-empowerment of individuals including Current platform-based business structures like Facebook, Uber, Airbnb or Amazon could be replaced by evolving decentralized ecosystems.