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Blockchain’s future: can the decentralized blockchain community succeed in creating standards?
The Knowledge Engineering Review ( IF 2.1 ) Pub Date : 2020-01-28 , DOI: 10.1017/s0269888920000016
John Flood , Adrian McCullagh

Nakamoto proposed a new solution to transact value via the internet. And since 2009, blockchain technology has expanded and diversified. It has, however, proven to be inefficient in the way it achieves its outcomes, especially through the proof of work protocol. Other developers are promoting alternative methods but, as yet, none has superseded proof of work. The competing protocols illuminate a key feature of the blockchain community, namely, its inability to create consensus in a decentralized community. Because of this lack of consensus, the formation of standards is particularly difficult to achieve. At best standards are contested sites, and we examine three such sites where some form of agreement over standards will be essential if blockchain is to evolve successfully. These three sites are blockchain governance, smart contracts, and interoperability of blockchains. We argue that because standards’ formation is a contested and contingent process, the blockchain community will persist in creating difficulties and barriers for itself until it is able to resolve internal conflicts.

中文翻译:

区块链的未来:去中心化的区块链社区能否成功创建标准?

中本聪提出了一种通过互联网进行价值交易的新解决方案。自 2009 年以来,区块链技术不断扩展和多样化。然而,事实证明,它在实现其结果的方式上效率低下,尤其是通过工作量证明协议。其他开发人员正在推广替代方法,但到目前为止,还没有人取代工作证明。相互竞争的协议阐明了区块链社区的一个关键特征,即它无法在去中心化社区中达成共识。由于这种缺乏共识,标准的形成尤其难以实现。充其量标准是有争议的网站,我们研究了三个这样的网站,如果区块链要成功发展,某种形式的标准协议将是必不可少的。这三个站点是区块链治理、智能合约、和区块链的互操作性。我们认为,由于标准的形成是一个有争议和偶然的过程,区块链社区将坚持为自己制造困难和障碍,直到它能够解决内部冲突。
更新日期:2020-01-28
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