Toward a Social Smart‐contract?
Matthieu Quiniou · Blockchain · 2019
The blockchain paradigm is the paradigm of non-centralization and disintermediation by digital means/technology as such. The idea of a social smart-contract corresponds to a new possibility for democratic expression, allowed by the certification and timestamping of actions performed in interaction with open source algorithms running on non-centralized networks. The blockchain makes it possible to renew the participation and voting systems, in particular by making certain forms of representation obsolete and potentially limiting manipulations during the counting of the votes cast. The Estonian e-Residency project is the first digital “citizenship”. The objective of this project is to provide fully dematerialized administrative services and to partially open Estonian citizenship and the benefits of Estonia's membership of the European Union to citizens of other countries. As blockchain is a registry technology, it is by its nature adapted to the administrative activity of registration and filing.