- Current unpermissoned distributed ledgers have high speculative nature.
- Lack of service continuity with little to no liability
- Security system of the blockchain tech is still relatively poor, can be manipulated by "early birds".
- the raising of a dominant techno-elite with growing supervisory powers over strategic services at the global level, without the necessary formal legitimacy.


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Is it possible to decentralize public administration and government
services through the blockchain technology, and to what extent?

Blockchain decentralization: Issues and Concerns

Security and technical weakness of current distributed blockchain.

- Can represent instead a valid solution for governmental online services (ID cards and driving licenses; land, school, medical records; certificates of birth, marriage, and death; tamper-proof and auditable e-vote systems; tax collection, etc)
- Can be used for services that are of general interests only, with data properly protected in the long term and no interference from cryptocurrency markets.
- Networks are also substantially free of scalability issues and may have slight performance advantages over public blockchains.
- More efficient architectural design compared to traditional ones.

Advantages of permissioned, token-less blockchains for public sector.

- When dealing with essential government services. determinism should never be the driving force behind decentralization.
- The technology must prove security, reliability and long-term durability, in the face of societal evolution. 
- Decentralization through distributed blockchains mostly means the privatization of public functions, with the transformation of government services and citizens' rights into a new profitable private business.

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