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Disrupting Organizations: Decentralized Autonomous Organizations on the Blockchain (en)

Disrupting Organizations: Decentralized Autonomous Organizations on the Blockchain (en)

re:publica 17 - All Sessions vor 9 Jahren

Blockchain is the driving force of the next generation Internet, also referred to as the Decentralized Web. It allows us to decentralise trust. Smart contracts on the Blockchain radically reducing transaction costs creating the basis for a P2P society, al

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Shermin Voshmgir The promise of blockchain has been to challenge
centralized, top-down decision-making through radical transparency
and auto enforceable code. Smart contracts on the blockchain
disintermediate transactions and radically reduce transactions
costs and allowing for new forms of decentralized organizational
structures that were not feasible before. The highes form of such a
smart contract are DAOs (Decentraized Autonomous Organizations) or
DVBNs (Decentralied Borderless Virtual Nations). The claim: Money
without banks. Companies without managers. Countries without
politicians. But how feasible are those claims and what are the
potential challenges and pitfalls? What can we learn from early
usecases like Bitcoin, TheDao and Ethereum?