Democratic Blockchain Design

• DOI: 10.1628/jite-2019-0023
• Publication Date: 2019-02-02T01:07:08Z
• Authors: Yoan Hermstrüwer
• Keywords: 10892 Constitutional, Administrative and International Law; 05 social sciences; 340 Law; 2002 Economics and Econometrics; 0509 other social sciences; 16. Peace & justice; 11351 Center for Information Technology, Society and Law; 0506 political science

Democracy requires rules that are designed to prevent the abuse of power and money.Blockchain technology is sometimes heralded as a solution mitigate problems associated with voting procedures, such counting errors, fraud,or improper use money influence outcome collective choice procedure.In this article, I argue democratic potential blockchain hinges on specific design governing validation blocks.In support argument, shed light governance raised by standard protocols proof-of-work, proof-of-stake, on-chain voting.