Blockchain Center DLT Research - Exploring the decentralized future
Top-class multidisciplinary research around the topic “Blockchain”
The disruptive technology of blockchain is now likely to be “the next big thing.” The decentralized directories (distributed ledger technology, or DLT for short) distributed on thousands, and in the future perhaps millions, of computers could replace the trust intermediaries (banks, credit card organizations, notaries, state-organized directories such as the land register, commercial register, etc., but also platforms such as Airbnb, Uber, Twitter, Dropbox, which currently still seem so “modern”) that have been necessary in electronic business and legal transactions over long distances and, through smart contracts, even make state law enforcement appear superfluous in certain areas. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
“Trustless trust” based on DLT will bring profound changes to the way we use the Internet and how we do business through the disintermediation it enables. The possibility of building decentralized (possibly even autonomous) organizations of members who neither need to know nor trust each other leaves hardly any area of the information society untouched. DLT also provides the IoT (Internet of Things) with a functioning data backbone. Previously unsolved problems of data protection, administrative reform, the handling of health data, electronic voting, consumer protection, the disposal of movable property or “intellectual property,” etc., etc., seem manageable with DLT. It is even expected to strengthen and modernize democratic structures.
The transformation processes that are now beginning will take years, even decades, and will require interdisciplinary research efforts at the intersections of computer science, economics, law, social sciences and the humanities with the goal of making the information society more efficient, more comfortable and – last but not least – a little more equitable for everyone through the socially acceptable use of technology. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
This is the goal to which those involved in Blockchain-Center.eu are committed. Through high-level multidisciplinary research, they are helping to achieve it.
Events
Activities
The next big thing – blockchain, cryptocurrencies, smart contract by Walter Blocher
Academy for Political Education: "The Digital Chameleon: Changing Society and Technology," Tutzingen, Germany, on June…
Software Licenses on the Blockchain by Walter Blocher
12th OSE (Organization per Software Escrow) Symposium, Munich, Germany, on January 27, 2017. Description: At…
Blockchains: legal protection of and by tokens by Georg von Wangenheim
Travemünde Symposium on the Economic Analysis of Law 2018, Travemünde, Germany, on March 22, 2018.…
Fundamentals and Legal Aspects of Blockchain Technology by Walter Blocher
Event organized by the Lorenz von Stein Institute for Management Sciences at the Institute for…
Internet Computing – Principles of Distributed Systems and Emerging Internet-Based Technologies
Sunyaev Ali (2020). Springer International Publishing. ISBN: 978-3-030-34956-1 Further information Abstract: This book introduces the…
Are cryptocurrencies revolutionizing payment systems?
Andreas Hanl, Jochen Michaelis (2017). In Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter 4/2017, 541-552. DOI: [nicht verfügbar] Further Information…
Software Licenses on the Blockchain – A Legally Secure Method for Software License Management
Alexander Hoppen, Peter Hoppen (2017). In CR 5/2017, 337-348. DOI: 10.9785/9783504386085-008 Further Information Abstract: [nicht…
Faulty smart contracts
Walter Blocher (2019). In Tom Braeglemann und Markus Kaulartz (Hrsg.), Rechtshandbuch Smart Contracts. DOI: [nicht…
Projects



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Blockchain Couture
Janina da Costa Cruz examines the disintermediation of the secondary market for luxury fashion through…
Blockchain-based Assurances
Florian Knauer is investigating the perception of protective guarantees (so-called structural assurances) in online purchases.…