With a wide range of application, Blockchain, which is the core technology of Bitcoin and altcoins has emerged as a groundbreaking innovation. In simple words, Blockchain is blocks of data together linked in a chain. Everything is recorded on the blockchain ledger, and one can go back through time to check any recorded data right from inception.
The two significant advantages of Blockchain are related to the cost of verification and the cost of networking. This can benefit the overall system by cheaply verifying the attributes of a transaction as well as helps in bootstrapping and directing a marketplace without needing a traditional intermediary. Moreover, Blockchain can also be used to improve digital property rights as it can represent the exchanges of currency, equity, properties, information and even digital assets and other types of contracts.
One of the benefits of Blockchain is its immutability. Blockchain’s ability to declare the truth without a centre of authority is something that can be beneficial for governance.
Blockchain network will verify the transactions correctly and without any flaws and also prevent the ledger from interfering with the mathematical mechanism. This is where the shift takes from trusting people to trusting mathematics.
Keeping in mind all these astounding benefits of Blockchain technology, its use in governance can be seen as an attractive proposition. According to the father of the public sphere concept, Jurgen Habermas, the liberty of expression and discussion are the two conditions necessary in building a public space as a force of integration which is fulfilled by Blockchain.