Blockchain: The birth of decentralized governance

Arruñada, Benito; Garicano, Luis

Blockchain: The birth of decentralized governance

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Arruñada, B, Garicano, L. Blockchain: The birth of decentralized governance. 2018. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44773

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Abstract

By allowing networks to split, decentralized blockchain platforms protect members against hold up, but hinder coordination, given that adaptation decisions are ultimately decentralized. The current solutions to improve coordination, based on premining cryptocoins, taxing members and incentivizing developers, are insufficient. For blockchain to fulfill its promise and outcompete centralized firms, it needs to develop new forms of soft decentralized governance (anarchic, aristocratic, democratic, and autocratic) that allow networks to avoid bad equilibria.