Abstract

Blockocracies are a coherent, distinctive and novel organizational form bound by a collective ledger and a cryptocurrency. We frame our analysis of blockocracies against Weber’s enduring description of bureaucracy, identifying those features of Weberian bureaucracies that are present, absent or marginalized in blockocracies. In contrast to bureaucracy’s monocratic authority structure, authority in blockocracies is centered on four distinct layers. In each layer, there is governance of the code and governance by the code, and in the latter we distinguish between endogenous and exogenous rules. We also compare the “blockocrat” with Weber’s depiction of the bureaucrat.

摘要

区块链是一种由集体分类账和加密货币约束的连贯，独特和新颖的组织形式。我们将对官僚主义的分析与韦伯对官僚机构的持久描述相结合，确定在官僚主义中存在，不存在或边缘化的韦伯官僚机构的特征。与官僚机构的专制权力结构相反，区块链政府的权力集中在四个不同的层次上。在每个层中，存在管理的代码和治理由该代码，而在后者我们内源性和外源性的规则之间进行区分。我们还将“大佬”与韦伯对官僚的描述进行了比较。