Blockchain
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Blockchain

Transforming Your Business and Our World

  1. 214 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Blockchain

Transforming Your Business and Our World

About this book

The internet was envisaged as a decentralised global network, but in the past 25 years it has come to be controlled by a few, very powerful, centralised companies. Blockchain is a technological paradigm shift that allows secure, reliable, and direct information transfer between individuals, organisations, and things, so that we can manage, verify, and control the use of our own data.

Blockchain also offers a new opportunity for humanity to fix some major problems. It can authenticate data, manage its analysis, and automate its use. With better data comes better decision-making. In this way, Blockchain can contribute to solving climate change, reduce voting fraud, fix our identity systems, improve fair trade, and give the poor an opportunity to improve their lives by monetising their (digital) capital. A world built upon peer-to-peer transactions and smart contracts can empower individuals and communities.

This book offers a fresh perspective with which to consider this transformative technology. It describes how Blockchain can optimise the processes that run our society. It provides practical solutions to global problems and offers a roadmap to incorporate Blockchain in your business. It offers a blueprint for a better world. Filled with easy-to-understand examples, this book shows how Blockchain can take over where the internet has fallen short.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781138313224
eBook ISBN
9780429855559
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Blockchain
  3. Praise
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Foreword
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. 1 Blockchain and Wicked Problems
  10. 2 What is the Blockchain?
  11. 3 Blockchain and Identity
  12. 4 Blockchain and Poverty
  13. 5 Blockchain and Corruption, Tax Evasion, and Money Laundering
  14. 6 Blockchain and Climate Change
  15. 7 Blockchain and Fair Trade
  16. 8 Blockchain and Voting Fraud
  17. 9 Blockchain and Censorship
  18. 10 The Convergence of Exponential Technologies
  19. Glossary of Terms
  20. References
  21. Index