New techs, new threats: sfide e opportunità della rivoluzione blockchain

Abstract

Considering the current diffusion of blockchain technology in the most different fields, ranging from public governance to economics, from contractual applications to health, the contribution addresses the issue of the legal regulation of this new technology, precisely because of its vast applications. From the comparison between the European model and the American one, the approach of the European legislator ‒ despite the delay with which the institutions have addressed the issue, seems to show, as already happened in other areas, a more 'social oriented' perspective and based on a sort of 'democratization' of data compared to the American approach, more ‘business oriented’, where the scholars have already had the opportunity to investigate this issue, especially in the field of corporate law. Aware of the complexity of the phenomenon at issue, due to its intrinsic dynamism, the intention is to highlight the opportunity to adopt a method known as "regulatory sandbox", to adequately interpret the naturally transnational character of the subject under analysis.