Blockchain per il bene comune? | Economia e Politica
In recent months, the focus on blockchain – the technology created to encourage online cryptocurrency exchange like Bitcoin – has grown exponentially among scholars and politicians. Blockchain is a particular type of distributed ledger written by decentralized, usually anonymous groups of agents rather than known centralized parties. Consensus is attained by making the ledger publicly viewable and verifiable. While some characterize the blockchain’s state-of-the-art as a ‘speculative vision’, others seem to agree that its only limitation is the imagination of the user community. In this paper we try to understand if the characteristics of blockchain can be useful to tackle and solve the main problems related to the use of an important category of economic goods: the common goods.
