Blockchain Ethics: Pure Reason or Pure Madness?

Thu, Jun 19, 2025, 01:58 PM · 23:26

This a work in progress attempting to answer seemingly simple and not very contradictory question. "Why can we not have ethics of blockchain applications?" We seem to have a burgeoning field of AI ethics, and even with a reasonable criticism against it, AI ethics does flourish both in industry and as research in academia. Contrast it with blockchain ethics which is hardly a mature subfield, but more of a painful (and emotional) topic. Are there good reasons to care about it? This is an empirical, philosophical, and normative question.