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Since its early days blockchain has been heralded as the technology of decentralisation. Many have hoped to use it to counter some of the more worrisome evils – like lack of privacy, fake news, or the concentration of data-wealth in the hands of a few – associated with today’s increasingly centralised and platform-dominated Internet. Yet we still seem to be waiting for a comprehensive view of how this might actually be done.
In Europe, that may be changing. While under the radar to some extent, European policy makers have been busy developing a vision of how blockchain could be applied to the European Digital Single Market. Those who favor a more citizen-centric, privacy-preserving approach to the Internet should find a fair amount to like in it.
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