Nakamoto’s paradox: expected utilities and potential dangers of an institutional use of blockchain technology

Abstract

The contribution, electing the shortlist of Italian administrative experiments in the blockchain field as its heuristic laboratory, will try to present (in a public law perspective) the main repercussions of this technology public use on the citizen life, as well as of the State apparatus, increasingly invested by the transformative effect of the fourth industrial revolution. In this sense, the aim of this article is highlight both the possible utilities with an institutional use of the blockchain, and the dangers of which it would seem to be a harbinger.