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DAO, blockchain and cryptography : a conversation with Quinn DuPont

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Gkikaki, Mairi, Rowan, Clare and Dupont, Quinn (2020) DAO, blockchain and cryptography : a conversation with Quinn DuPont. Exchanges: the Warwick Research Journal, 7 (3). pp. 103-117. doi:10.31273/eirj.v7i3.594 ISSN 2053-9665.

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Abstract

In Classical Athens, as well as in our modern digital era, governance has been achieved through tokens. Tokens enabled voting on projects, representation, and belonging. The Distributed Autonomous Organisation (DAO) launched on the basis of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology was conceived as a form of algorithmic governance with applications in the organisation of companies. The visionaries of the DAO envisaged, among other things, a new form of sociality, which would be transparent and fair and based on a decentralised, unstoppable, public blockchain. These hopes were dashed when the DAO was exploited and drained of millions of dollars' worth of tokens within days after launching. The conversation published in the present article is conceived as an interdisciplinary discussion about the phenomenon of the Decentralised Autonomous Organisation and its impact on perceptions of sociality. Topics include the idea of the DAO as an algorithmic authority, the lessons learned when the project failed, the revolutionary beginnings of cryptocurrency technology and its potential in voting technologies, as well as the changing notions of cryptography in light of cryptocurrency technologies.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: A General Works > AZ History of Scholarship The Humanities
C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CJ Numismatics
H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
H Social Sciences > HG Finance
H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > Classics and Ancient History
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): DuPont, Quinn, Blockchains (Databases) , Database security, Cryptocurrencies, Cryptography, Tokens
Journal or Publication Title: Exchanges: the Warwick Research Journal
Publisher: Institute of Advanced Study
ISSN: 2053-9665
Official Date: 26 June 2020
Dates:
DateEvent
26 June 2020Published
15 March 2020Accepted
Volume: 7
Number: 3
Page Range: pp. 103-117
DOI: 10.31273/eirj.v7i3.594
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access (Creative Commons)
Copyright Holders: The authors
Date of first compliant deposit: 22 January 2021
Date of first compliant Open Access: 22 January 2021
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
794080-2Horizon 2020 Framework Programmehttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010661
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