Test, Trace, and Put on the Blockchain?: A Viewpoint Evaluating the Use of Decentralized Systems for Algorithmic Contact Tracing to Combat a Global Pandemic

Moritz Platt   ¹ , BSc, MSc ;   Anton Hasselgren   ² , BSc, MSc ;   Juan Manuel Román-Belmonte   ³ , MD, PhD ;   Marcela Tuler de Oliveira   ⁴ , BSc, MSc ;   Hortensia De la Corte-Rodríguez   ⁵ , MD, PhD ;   Sílvia Delgado Olabarriaga   ⁴ , MSc, PhD ;   E Carlos Rodríguez-Merchán   ^{6, 7} , MD, PhD ;   Tim Ken Mackey   ^{8, 9} , MAS, PhD

¹ Department of Informatics, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

² Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

³ Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Hospital Central de la Cruz Roja San José y Santa Adela, Madrid, Spain

⁴ Department of Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands

⁵ Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain

⁶ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain

⁷ Osteoarticular Surgery Research, Hospital La Paz Institute for Health Research, IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain

⁸ Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, School of Medicine, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States

⁹ BlockLAB, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States