Blockchain technology enables new kinds of decentralized systems, but is this really true? As a research group, in P2P Models we explore social and political imaginaries about blockchain. The paper by Silvia Semenzin, David Rozas and Samer Hassan, Blockchain-based application at a governmental level: disruption or illusion? The case of Estonia, explores several blockchain-based socio-technical objects to identify the narratives that have emerged in Estonia, a perfect example to research this topic as the alleged first national infrastructure integrating blockchain.

First, the paper examines the work related to Blockchain’s myriad interpretations,  then focuses on the possibilities for blockchain-based governance. It then discusses an overview of the Blockchain’s narratives and the imaginary policies that surround it in the case of Estonia.