Is Blockchain a General Purpose Technology?

Kane, Ethan

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2932585

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“…As new applications were identified, we continued to add these to the sheet, and refined and iterated any codes and classes as necessary. We also compared our codes with the application classes produced by Kane's earlier survey [32], to sense-check our own coding, and highlight potential projects and domains that we may have overlooked. The result of this analysis produced seven high-level themes that we present below as an overarching typology.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We monitored cryptocurrency news sites and articles,; we followed and used search engines to pursue references in academic literature and white papers (e.g. [70,75]); like Kane [32] we also harvested examples from catalogues of venture capital investments (e.g. [2]).…”

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“…Werbach [75] proposes three areas where blockchain has taken root: finance, proof-as-a-service, and decentralized applications. Kane [32] provides a rare, more comprehensive survey of blockchain applications, drawn from start-up investment websites. Working in the field of economics [e.g., 39], Kane maps the domain of blockchain applications to Swan's typology and categorizes most applications as belonging to Blockchain 2.0.…”

Section: Reviewing Blockchainmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, of late, there has been a proliferation of blockchain-based applications. Proponents of blockchain view the technology as utterly transformative, comparable to the Internet in its potential scope and impact [1,32,75,78]. Proposed applications include crowdfunding, payment services, voting, copyright management, supply-chain tracking, authentication services and distributed, autonomous organizations.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Making Sense of Blockchain Applications

Elsden

Manohar

Briggs

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Blockchain is an emerging infrastructural technology that is proposed to fundamentally transform the ways in which people transact, trust, collaborate, organize and identify themselves. In this paper, we construct a typology of emerging blockchain applications, consider the domains in which they are applied, and identify distinguishing features of this new technology. We argue that there is a unique role for the HCI community in linking the design and application of blockchain technology towards lived experience and the articulation of human values. In particular, we note how the accounting of transactions, a trust in immutable code and algorithms, and the leveraging of distributed crowds and publics around vast interoperable databases all relate to longstanding issues of importance for the field. We conclude by highlighting core conceptual and methodological challenges for HCI researchers beginning to work with blockchain and distributed ledger technologies.

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Making Sense of Blockchain Applications

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Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…In particular, we draw on the notions of synergy and dormancy with GPTs mentioned in the literature review in section 1.1. Blockchain technology has recently been considered as a potential general purpose technology [70][71][72]. The application of blockchain to cryptocurrencies, or Bitcoin, spurned a large wave of interest and investment in 2017 [73].…”

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Co-diffusion of social contagions

Chang

2018

New J. Phys.

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Prior social contagion models consider the spread of either one contagion on interdependent networks or multiple contagions on single layer networks, usually under assumptions of competition. We propose a new threshold model for the diffusion of multiple contagions. Individuals are placed on a multiplex network with a periodic lattice layer and a random-regular-graph layer. On these population structures, we study the interface between two key aspects of the diffusion process: the level of synergy between two contagions, and the rate at which individuals become dormant after adoption. Dormancy is defined as a looser form of immunity that limits active spreading but without conferring resistance. Monte Carlo simulations reveal lower synergy makes contagions more susceptible to percolation, especially those that diffuse on lattices. Faster diffusion of one contagion with dormancy probabilistically blocks the diffusion of the other, in a way similar to ring vaccination. We show that within a band of synergy, bimodal or trimodal branchings occur on the slower contagion on the lattice. We also show complimentary contagions can provide a synergistic boost to help spread contagions that have almost gone dormant.

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