The real world of the decentralized autonomous society

TripleC

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 62-77

  Garrod, J Z ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bitcoin; Blockchain; Capitalism; Ethereum; State

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958824498     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1726670X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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