ABSTRACT
This chapter draws on the Brisbane Club model to analyse the likely impacts of the mega-technology that is blockchain and the possibilities for institutional discovery it offers. Despite these challenges, we will see that blockchain offers new possibilities for the emergence of community-based solutions to various socioeconomic problems. The chapter draws on and develop research published elsewhere by Markey-Towler to establish the relationship between these capabilities and the psychological process to understand how these new modes of behaviour might be realised, and thus the selection pressures exerted on various blockchain-based platforms with institutional governance. It makes far more possible what Trent MacDonald has called crypto-secession from entire systems of institutional governance such as governments in particular by offering a range of new platforms for interaction governed by institutional systems which emerge from the protocols embedded within a blockchain infrastructure.
