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Blockchain is considered as a new technology to reshape the world, which characterized by anonymity of subject, intelligence of transaction, decentralization of management, autonomy of on-chain rules, data immutability, transparency and symmetry of information, and automation of incentive (or reward and punishment) from the perspective of law. The significance of “blockchain + rule of law” is mainly the technical credit, trust transfer, new consensus mechanism, the coupling effect of code norms and legal norms.
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This paper is supported by the Major Program of the National Social Science Fund of China “Theoretical Model and Practical Approach of Integrating Socialist Core Values into the Construction of Rule of Law in Smart Society” (No. 20VHJ009) and Research on Innovation Mode of Nurturing High Quality Legal Talents for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay (No.GXJK090).
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Liu, W., Bian, J., Zeng, CT. (2021). Value of Blockchain in Rule of Law. In: Dai, HN., Liu, X., Luo, D.X., Xiao, J., Chen, X. (eds) Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems. BlockSys 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1490. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7993-3_34
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