Blockchain · 2018
The Emergence of Trust and Value in Public Blockchain Networks
Argues that trust and value in Bitcoin and Ethereum are emergent system-level properties arising from decentralized collective behavior.
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Publication
IX International Conference on Complex Systems
Why It Matters
The first academic work to formally frame public blockchain trust as emergent trust rather than simply trustless architecture.
Topics
emergent trustblockchainpublic ledgerscomplex adaptive systems