Blockchain revolution
Subtitle: how the technology behind bitcoin is changing money, business, and the world
By: Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott
Contributors: Tapscott, Alex, author
Publisher: Portfolio; Portfolio / Penguin
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781101980132; 9780399564062
Subjects: Financial institutions; Electronic funds transfers; Electronic commerce; Technological innovations; Mobile commerce; Bitcoin; Banks and banking
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-336) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Say you want a revolution. 1. The trust protocol; title: 2. Bootstrapping the future: seven design principles of the blockchain economy; title: Part II: Transformation. 3. Reinventing financial services; title: 4. Re-architecting the firm: the core and the edges; title: 5. New business models: making it rain on the blockchain; title: 6. the ledger of things: animating the physical world; title: 7. Solving the prosperity paradox: economic inclusion and entrepreneurship; title: 8. Rebuilding government and democracy; title: 9. Freeing culture on the blockchain: music to our ears; title: Part III: Promise and peril. 10. Overcoming showstoppers: ten implementation challenges; title: 11. Leadership for the next era.