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Über die Blockchain, Bitcoins und Verwandtes

van Treeck, Jan Claas

Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung, Bd. 10 (2019), Iss. 2: S. 127–136

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van Treeck, Jan Claas

Abstract

Blockchain has found its way out of technical obscurity via a largely faded phase of utopian-mystifying enthusiasm to established industry solutions. Blockchain-based crypto currencies have long been accepted as a means of payment and are tentatively being used institutionally as well. Nevertheless, Block- chain solutions still seem to sell a promise that seeks to satisfy a social need—that of trust within systems. A glance at the technicalities of Blockchain, however, allows insights into the possibility of such techno-social promises and their (non-)redeemability.