Part I: Introduction: Theorizing from Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Design of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Systems.- Blockchain Governance: De Facto (x)or Designed?.- Incentives to Engage Blockchain and Ecosystem Actors.- Balancing Security - A Moving Target.- Distributing and Democratizing Institutional Power Through Decentralization.- Blockchains and Provenance: How a Technical System for Tracing Origins, Ownership and Authenticity Can Transform Social Trust.- Part II: Conclusion: Theorizing from Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Design of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Systems.
Victoria Lemieux is an Associate Professor of Archival
Science at the School of Information and lead of the blockchain
research cluster “Blockchain@UBC” at the University of British
Columbia, Canada. Her current research focuses on risks concerning
the availability of trustworthy records, in particular in
blockchain record-keeping systems, and how these risks affect
transparency, financial stability, public accountability and human
rights. She holds a PhD in Archival Studies from the University
College London, UK.
Chen Feng received his PhD in Engineering from the
University of Toronto, Canada, in 2014. He was subsequently a
postdoctoral fellow with Boston University, USA, and the Ecole
Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland. He joined the
School of Engineering, University of British Columbia, Canada, in
2015, where he is currently an Assistant Professor. His primary
research interest is in coding theory and its applicationsin
various fields, ranging from wireless communications to quantum
communications, and from communication networks to blockchain
technologies.
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