Even though blockchain technology is on everyone’s radar, there is still a lot of confusion and lack of clarity about how blockchain technology actually works and how it could be useful not only for the general public but also for the field of internet governance. In this episode we talk to Moritz Becker, researcher in the research group "Trust in Distributed Environments" at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin. We discuss the concept blockchain as well as its practical implementation in so-called decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). Do blockchain-based systems really offer a more inclusive and democratic alternative for organizational systems?

Becker, M. (2019). Blockchain and the Promise(s) of Decentralisation: A Sociological Investigation of the Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Blockchain. Proceedings of the STS Conference Graz 2019. https://doi.org/10.3217/978-3-85125-668-0-02

Wagener, A. (2018). Politische Disruption: Die Digitalisierung der Politik und die libertäre Technologie der Blockchain. In S. Liebold, T. Mannewitz, M. Petschke, & T. Thieme (Eds.), Demokratie in unruhigen Zeiten (pp. 387-396). Nomos. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845284637-386