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Blockchain revolution : how the technology behind bitcoin is changing money, business, and the world
- Author
- Tapscott, Don, 1947- author.
- Title
- Blockchain revolution : how the technology behind bitcoin is changing money, business, and the world / Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Portfolio / Penguin, [2016]
- Description
- xx, 348 pages ; 24 cm
- Other contributors
- Tapscott, Alex, author.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-336) and index.
- Contents
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- Part I: Say you want a revolution. 1. The trust protocol
- 2. Bootstrapping the future: seven design principles of the blockchain economy
- Part II: Transformation. 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.
- Summary
- 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 anonymous, the blockchain validates and keeps a permanent public record of all transactions. That means that your personal information is private and secure, while all activity is transparent and incorruptible--reconciled by mass collaboration and stored in code on a digital ledger. With its advent, we will not need to trust each other in the traditional sense, because trust is built into the system itself.
- Subject headings
- Cryptocurrencies. Blockchains (Databases). Bitcoin. Electronic commerce. Mobile commerce. Banks and banking--Technological innovations. Financial institutions--Technological innovations.
- ISBN
- 9781101980132 (hbk) 1101980133 (hbk) 9781101980156 (ebk) 110198015X (ebk) 9780399564062 (International edition) 0399564063 (International edition)