I recently found myself intrigued by the question of how to deal with a failed or obsolete blockchain system. My starting point was the phrase “blockchain bankruptcy,” but I broadened my thinking from there. I ended up being concerned about the general problem of gracefully ending a blockchain system. First, we might ask: why do…

The Chamber of Digital Commerce recently published a National Action Plan for Blockchain. Since I count myself among the people interested in blockchain systems, and keen to find useful applications for them, I figured this was a document worth examining. First, though, we should ask: who is the Chamber of Digital Commerce? They’re basically a…