Distributed Ledger Technologies, Value Accounting, and the Self Sovereign Identity

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Technological activists are designing blockchains and other distributed ledger technologies to challenge extractive value-accounting and identity management in global capitalism. This paper investigates how the new possibilities afforded through distributed ledger technology make possible an alternative future of generative value accounting and self-sovereign identity practices.

Keywords

• self-sovereign identity
• blockchain
• holochain
• distributed ledger technology
• critical accounting
• social movements