This paper investigates ontological dimensions of the blockchain by asking what kind of socio-technical object bitcoin is. It discusses both blockchain's political qualities and the political forms enabled by its emergence. It first observes recent approaches to the ontology of money and the political qualities of the ledgers used by the current fractional reserve banking model. It then directs the same questions at blockchain technology. The paper discusses an ontology proposed by Ole Bjerg (2016) and argues in favour of a mixed-ontology approach to blockchains. It then questions the political qualities of the distributed ledger as a digital object and highlights the apparent absence of authority figures in the model. Finally, it argues that the political ontology of the blockchain can be framed as the displacement of authority from institutional actors into instrumental control of trust, in a dynamically distributed environment.

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计算账本和区块链的政治本体

本文通过询问比特币是一种什么样的社会技术对象来研究区块链的本体维度。它讨论了区块链的政治品质及其出现所带来的政治形式。它首先观察了货币本体论的最新方法以及当前部分准备金银行模型使用的分类账的政治特性。然后它针对区块链技术提出了同样的问题。该论文讨论了 Ole Bjerg (2016) 提出的本体论，并主张采用混合本体论方法处理区块链。然后它质疑分布式账本作为数字对象的政治品质，并强调模型中权威人物的明显缺失。最后，