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比特币共识演化中治理的实证研究

An Empirical Study on Governance in Bitcoin's Consensus Evolution

Jakob Svennevik Notland, Mariusz Nowostawski, Jingyue Li

AI总结:

本研究通过扎根理论分析比特币和比特币现金的34个共识分叉,揭示了其去中心化治理行为,并证明共识驱动的部署技术与共识规则治理相互交织。

摘要:

区块链系统将共识规则作为代码运行,以就分布式账本的状态达成一致并保护网络安全。改变这些规则可能充满风险与挑战。此外,这通常会引起争议,并且需要耗费大量精力使所有必要的参与者同意采纳变更。可以说,比特币在矿池和开发中已显现出中心化趋势。然而,这些趋势如何影响区块链治理却极少受到社区和学术界的关注。我们的研究通过考察比特币的历史,分析了区块链中的治理结构。我们通过扎根理论分析调查了改变共识规则的过程,该分析包含来自比特币和比特币现金的34个共识分叉的定量和定性数据。结果揭示了比特币和区块链中的去中心化行为。我们的结果与相关研究形成对比,后者强调矿工和开发者之间的中心化。此外,我们的结果展示了共识驱动的部署技术与共识规则的治理是如何相互交织的。

英文摘要:

Blockchain systems run consensus rules as code to agree on the state of the distributed ledger and secure the network. Changing these rules can be risky and challenging. In addition, it can often be controversial and take much effort to make all the necessary participants agree to adopt a change. Arguably, Bitcoin has seen centralisation tendencies in pools and in development. However, how these tendencies influence blockchain governance has received minimal community and academic attention. Our study analyses the governmental structures in a blockchain by looking into the history of Bitcoin. We investigate the process of changing consensus rules through a grounded theory analysis comprising quantitative and qualitative data from 34 consensus forks in Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash. The results reveal the decentralised behaviour in Bitcoin and blockchain. Our results are in contrast to related work, emphasising centralisation among miners and developers. Furthermore, our results show how the consensus-driven deployment techniques and governance of consensus rules are intertwined.

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