Everybody knows the disruptive capabilities of blockchain technology in the field of finance and money. The most famous application of it being bitcoin.
But did you know that blockchain technology could also provide citizens the tool they need to free themselves from the yoke of dictatorship and obsolete representative democracy (or should we say particracy) ?
Here is a curated list of 5 posts to help you understand this unexpected disruptive capability of blockchain :
- Bitcoin is the Beginning of the End of the Nation State Says Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof
- How cryptocurrency will cripple today's governments and they won't see it coming
- Introduction to Ethereum: The Internet’s Government
- Frozen in the past no more : the promise of liquid democracy
- 999 jours sans gouvernement (in french)
What do you think ? Is blockchain the technological trigger that will enable the rise of real democracy and a new era of decentralized decision-making ?