Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies is Changing the World

The Internet as we know it is great for collaboration and communication, but is deeply flawed when it comes to commerce and privacy. The new blockchain technology facilitates peer-to-peer transactions without any intermediary such as a bank or governing body. Keeping the user's information anon...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Don Tapscott
Other Authors: Alex Tapscott
Format: Printed Book
Published: London Portfolio / Penguin 2016
Subjects:
Electronic funds transfers. Blockchains (Databases) Bitcoin.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Say you want a revolution. 1. The trust protocol
  • 2. Bootstrapping the future: seven design principles of the blockchain economy
  • Part II: Transformations. 3. Reinventing financial services
  • 4. Re-architecting the firm: the core and the edges
  • 5. New business models: making it rain on the blockchain
  • 6. The ledger of things: animating the physical world
  • 7. Solving the prosperity paradox: economic inclusion and entrepreneurship
  • 8. Rebuilding government and democracy
  • 9. Freeing culture on the blockchain: music to our ears
  • Part III: Promise and peril. 10. Overcoming showstoppers: ten implementation challenges
  • 11. Leadership for the next era.

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