Cryptocurrency communities offer a rich laboratory for investigating questions about centralized authority versus self-government. The Distributed-Governance Index defines several measures of governance on a scale of safe, caution, and danger, and enables an analysis of ten of todays most innovative distributed-governance communities.
Distributed Self-Government in Protocol Communities
An Introduction and Index of Examples
By Tom W. Bell
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the Fall 2020 issue of The Independent Review.