Abstract

This essay is aimed at describing the main items related to an interdisciplinary research on the blockchain technology. Blockchain tackles an elusive networking problem by allowing for trustless transactions. Values, goods and rights can be transacted without central institutions. Such transactions will be verified, monitored and enforced by means of the blockchain technology. The legal issues, the related workplace disruption, and the impacts of the gig-economy are analyzed in order to better understand the blockchain effects in the near future.