7.5A Governance of Digital Commerce
Class Outline
Digital commerce (B2B, B2C, C2C,...)
Digital payment: Mobile payment (Alipay, WeChatpay,....), M-Pesa, Pay Pal,...
WTO
Lecture Candidates:
7.5B Blockchain Governance
Class Outline
Blockchain
Digital currency
Blockchain governance
Class Description (Kenji Saito; From "Blockchains and Distributed Ledger Technology")
Overview
Possibility of Blockchains
What are Companies Remembered in Human History
Impossibility and Problems of Blockchains
Class Description - Blockchain Governance Design (by Fred Ehrsam, 2017)
Two critical components of blockchain governance; incentives and mechanisms for coordination
Current approaches; Bitcoin, Ethereum
New chains experimenting with on-chain governance
Double-edged sword of on-chain governance
Future approaches
Voting with people or money?
Other tools
Forking
Lecture Candidates: Pindar Wong, Kenji Saito,...
References
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M-Pesa
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Pay Pal
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