Bitcoin’s Identity Crisis and the Prospect of Trustless Money

Q2 Social Sciences

Global Jurist Pub Date : 2020-04-14 DOI:10.1515/gj-2020-0008

Alain Zamaria

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Abstract

Abstract Whether it is legally treated as a digital property, a commodity or a security, bitcoin’s identity crisis is mainly caused by its contradictions as a trustless monetary project. The paper argues that bitcoin’s trustlessness is a confusing concept that accounts for its legal and monetary troubles. As explicated by monetary sociologists and economists, money is based on a complex trust architecture. By questioning the interplay between code, trust and law in the monetary realm, the paper aims to enlighten the philosophy of bitcoin’s monetary project, the current trends, and some potential developments for bitcoin and distributed ledger technologies.

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比特币的身份危机和无信任货币的前景

比特币的身份危机，无论在法律上被视为数字财产、商品还是证券，主要是由于比特币作为一种无信任的货币项目的矛盾造成的。该论文认为，比特币的不信任感是一个令人困惑的概念，导致了它的法律和货币问题。正如货币社会学家和经济学家所解释的那样，货币是建立在一个复杂的信任架构之上的。通过质疑货币领域中代码、信任和法律之间的相互作用，本文旨在启发比特币货币项目的理念、当前趋势以及比特币和分布式账本技术的一些潜在发展。

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Global Jurist Social Sciences-Law

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