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| author | Hope, Jarrad Ludlow, Peter |
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| contents | We argue that the principal application for blockchain technology will not be in the financial sector, but rather in maintaining decentralized human governance, from archives to transparent policies encoded in the blockchain in the form of smart contracts.. Such decentralized, blockchain-grounded governance comes not a moment too soon, as nation states are dissolving before our eyes. Will blockchain-based communities replace the nation state? What are the prospects and dangers of this development? |
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| spellingShingle | Farewell to Westphalia: Crypto Sovereignty and Post-Nation-State Governaance Hope, Jarrad Ludlow, Peter Computers and Society Cryptography and Security We argue that the principal application for blockchain technology will not be in the financial sector, but rather in maintaining decentralized human governance, from archives to transparent policies encoded in the blockchain in the form of smart contracts.. Such decentralized, blockchain-grounded governance comes not a moment too soon, as nation states are dissolving before our eyes. Will blockchain-based communities replace the nation state? What are the prospects and dangers of this development? |
| title | Farewell to Westphalia: Crypto Sovereignty and Post-Nation-State Governaance |
| topic | Computers and Society Cryptography and Security |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09840 |