Blockchains and, more recently, DAOs (Decentralised Autonomous Organisations) can be described as complex socio-technical systems where groups of people interact with distributed protocols and digital technologies at different scales. The complexity of both blockchains and DAOs can be described in relation to scale and, as Siegenfeld and Bar-Yam have noted, this is ultimately a decision about which level of detail we may want to provide when describing them.
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