# Private blockchain

`kaal:entity:private-blockchain`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `private-blockchain`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2020 to 2021.

**2020**

- [3709041-025](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3709041-025) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Blockchain voting solutions require political will as well as technical capability, and incumbent governments may refuse to surrender control over the voting process, preferring private blockchains that preserve their control.
  > Yet, governments in the existing representative democracies may not wish to surrender control over the voting process and may prefer to use private blockchains to facilitate voting outcomes.
  Kaal, Blockchain Technology for Good (2020). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3709041

**2021**

- [3808867-021](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808867-021) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Decentralized voting solutions require political will as well as technology, and governments in existing representative democracies may refuse to surrender control over the voting process, preferring private blockchains to facilitate voting outcomes.
  > Yet, governments in the existing representative democracies may not wish to surrender control over the voting process and may prefer to use private blockchains to facilitate voting outcomes.
  Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Systems Can Upgrade AI (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808867

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