num_pages: 208
description: The definitive pioneering blueprint covering the what why and how of the blockchain.Blockchains are new technology layers that rewire the Internet and threaten to side-step older legacy constructs and centrally served businesses. At its core a blockchain injects trust into the network cutting off some intermediaries from serving that function and creatively disrupting how they operate. Metaphorically blockchains are the ultimate non-stop computers. Once launched they never go down and offer an incredible amount of resiliency making them dependable and attractive for running a new generation of decentralized services and software applications.The Business Blockchain charts new territory in advancing our understanding of the blockchain by unpacking its elements like no other before. William Mougayar anticipates a future that consists of thousands if not millions of blockchains that will enable not only frictionless value exchange but also a new flow of value redefining roles relationships power and governance. In this book Mougayar makes two other strategic assertions. First the blockchain has polymorphic characteristics; its application will result in a multiplicity of effects. Second we shouldn't ask ourselves what problems the blockchain solves because that gives us a narrow view on its potential. Rather we should imagine new opportunities and tackle even more ambitious problems that cross organizational regulatory and mental boundaries.Drawing on 34 years of technology industry experience as an executive analyst consultant entrepreneur startup mentor author blogger educator thought leader and investor William Mougayar describes a future that is influenced by fundamental shifts brought by blockchain technology as the catalyst for change. William Mougayar has been described as the most sophisticated blockchain business thinker. He is a blockchain industry insider whose work has already shaped and influenced the understanding of blockchain for people around the world via his generous blogging and rigorous research insights. He is a direct participant in the crypto-technology market working alongside startups entrepreneurs pioneers leaders innovators creators enterprise executives and practitioners; in addition to being an investor advisor and board member in some of the leading organizations in this space such as the Ethereum Foundation OpenBazaar and Coin Center.Just as the Internet created new possibilities that we didn't foresee in its early years the blockchain will give rise to new business models and ideas that may still be invisible. Following an engaging Foreword by Vitalik Buterin this book is organized along these 7 chapters:1. What is the Blockchain?2. How Blockchain Trust Infiltrates3. Obstacles Challenges &amp; Mental Blocks4. Blockchain in Financial Services5. Lighthouse Industries &amp; New Intermediaries6. Implementing Blockchain Technology7. Decentralization as the Way ForwardThe Business Blockchain is an invitation for technologists to better understand the business potential of the blockchain and for business minded people to grasp the many facets of blockchain technology. This book teaches you how to think about the blockchain.
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title: The Business Blockchain: Promise, Practice, and Application of the Next Internet Technology
publisher: Wiley