About this Research Topic
This special issue has been initiated by organizers of the International Conference 'Blockchain, Public Trust, Law and Governance', which took place at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, 29-30 November 2018.
For this issue we welcome submissions along this theme from different disciplinary perspectives including on the topics:
- Privacy in the digital age and DLT
- Digital Identity, Self-Sovereign Identity
- DLT and governmental surveillance (Law Enforcement, Security Services)
- Anonymity/Pseudonymity in cryptocurrency environments
- Governance of and through DLT based networks
- Qualification of 'DAOs' from philosophical, social and legal perspectives
- DLT as enabler of progress in the Global South
This list is illustrative, not comprehensive. We also encourage subscriptions on other topics and along the general theme.
Articles published within this Research Topic in 2019 are eligible for the $10,000 “Yun Family Frontiers in Blockchain Prize".
For more details, please see our blog post here:
https://blog.frontiersin.org/2018/12/12/frontiers-in-blockchain-introduces-new-journal-wide-10000-best-paper-prize/
Keywords: governance, law, blockchain, trust, digital identity, privacy
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