Blockchain Applications and Institutional Trust

In the current discussions around Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, we find a lack of theory to conceptualize and understand application scenarios. In this paper we propose to conceptualize distributed ledger technologies as trust mechanisms. Whereas, previously one had to rely on a tr...

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Main Authors: Martin Smits, Joris Hulstijn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Blockchain
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fbloc.2020.00005/full