ETHICOMP 2020: Exploring Value Sensitive Design for Blockchain Development

The potential impact that blockchain technologies might have in our society makes it paramount to consider human values during their design and development. Though the blockchain community has been moved from the beginning by a set of values that are favoured by the underlying technologies, it is necessary to explore how these values play among the diverse set of stakeholders and the potential conflicts that might arise. The final aim is to motivate the establishment of a set of guidelines that make blockchains better support human values, despite the initial bias these technologies might impose. The results so far have been used to analyze from a values perspective a blockchain application driven by ethical values.