نبذة مختصرة : This chapter seeks to examine the principle of legal certainty in connection with blockchain technology. It explores whether blockchain technology – featured core operational characteristics – fulfils the rule of law’s principle of legal certainty. The chapter discusses the principle of legal certainty and explores how blockchain technology has been designed to contest legal order and some regulatory norms. The chapter then draws on the notion of legal certainty and assesses the technology’s law/legal-compliance potentials. It finally concludes that blockchain technology theoretically falls short of satisfying the principle of legal certainty and proposes legal remedies to address such a shortcoming.
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