| Description |
xx, 348 pages ; 24 cm |
| 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: 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-336) and index |
| Subject |
Electronic funds transfers.
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Blockchains (Databases)
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Bitcoin.
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Electronic commerce.
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Mobile commerce.
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Banks and banking -- Technological innovations.
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Financial institutions -- Technological innovations.
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| Author |
Tapscott, Alex, author
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| LC no. |
2016008427 |
| ISBN |
9781101980132 (hbk.) |
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1101980133 (hbk.) |
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9780399564062 (International edition) |
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0399564063 (International edition) |
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9780241237854 (paperback) |
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0241237858 (paperback) |
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