From authentication to ‘Hanseatic governance’: Blockchain as organizational technology
Journal: Research Repository UCD (University College Dublin)
Year: 2019

Blockchain technology provides a distributed ledger and is based on a logic of peer to peer authentication. It gained prominence with the rise of cryptocurrencies but provides a much broader field of possible application, including – but not limited to – land and other registries, global trade systems. While it has been originally closely linked to a libertarian, anarchic agenda, recent developments of commercial applications have illustrated that it can been dissociated from a particular ideolo