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Die vierte Regierungstechnologie. Über Blockchain

Author(s): Potts, JasonHediger, Vinzenz

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Blockchain is a technology that, in peer-to-peer computing networks, connects indefinitely expandable lists of data sets by means of cryptographic processes. For the economist Jason Potts, who studies technological innovation and the transformation of knowledge orders from the perspective of evolutionary economics, blockchains are a rare occurrence: adjacent and subsequent to the state, the market, and the company, blockchains are the fourth governmental technology. As a form of decentralized bookkeeping with an automated certifying process, blockchains take on successive tasks that had previously been reserved for companies and state bureaucracies or attended to by markets. Potts discusses the transformative potential of blockchains with Vinzenz Hediger.

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Potts, Jason; Hediger, Vinzenz: Die vierte Regierungstechnologie. Über Blockchain. In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, Jg. 10 (2018), Nr. 1, S. 73-86. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/2377.
@ARTICLE{Potts2018,
 author = {Potts, Jason and Hediger, Vinzenz},
 title = {Die vierte Regierungstechnologie. Über Blockchain},
 year = 2018,
 doi = {10.25969/mediarep/2377},
 volume = 10,
 address = {Bielefeld},
 journal = {Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft},
 number = 1,
 pages = {73--86},
}
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