Digital Decentralization by Design: Escaping the Paradox of Power by Nick Cowen, University of Lincoln (UK)
Professor Cowen (University of Lincoln, UK) presented on political economic questions associated with networks involving blockchain. He discussed how platforms came to dominate protocols but why blockchain adds a much greater role for common protocols. Platforms, which are under pressure on a variety of fronts, can be disintermediated by protocols that, using blockchain, can harness the capacity for direct value transfer.
