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Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World

Don Tapscott, Alex Tapscott

Could a shared digital ledger take over the job of trust now done by banks and middlemen, and what would that change for business?

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Author
Don Tapscott, Alex Tapscott

Why read it

  • You will be able to explain in plain terms how a worldwide shared ledger works
  • You will get seven design principles for judging whether a blockchain idea is sound
  • You will be able to ask how your own industry could change, using examples from finance to government

Who it is for

  • A manager asking whether blockchain matters to their industry
  • A founder looking for a new kind of business model
  • A reader who keeps hearing about Bitcoin and wants the idea

Contents

  1. PART I: Say You Want a Revolution
  2. CHAPTER 1: The Trust Protocol
  3. In Search of the Trust Protocol
  4. How This Worldwide Ledger Works
  5. A Rational Exuberance for the Blockchain
  6. Achieving Trust in the Digital Age
  7. Return of the Internet
  8. Your Personal Avatar and the Black Box of Identity
  9. A Plan for Prosperity
  10. Promise and Peril of the New Platform
  11. CHAPTER 2: Bootstrapping the Future: Seven Design Principles of the Blockchain Economy
  12. The Seven Design Principles
  13. 1. Networked Integrity
  14. 2. Distributed Power
  15. 3. Value as Incentive
  16. 4. Security
  17. 5. Privacy
  18. 6. Rights Preserved
  19. 7. Inclusion
  20. Designing the Future
  21. PART II: Transformations
  22. CHAPTER 3: Reinventing Financial Services
  23. A New Look for the World’s Second-Oldest Profession
  24. The Golden Eight: How the Financial Services Sector Will Change
  25. From Stock Exchanges to Block Exchanges
  26. Dr. Faust’s Blockchain Bargain
  27. The Bank App: Who Will Win in Retail Banking
  28. Google Translate for Business: New Frameworks for Accounting and Corporate Governance
  29. Reputation: You Are Your Credit Score
  30. The Blockchain IPO
  31. The Market for Prediction Markets
  32. Road Map for the Golden Eight
  33. CHAPTER 4: Re-architecting the Firm: The Core and the Edges
  34. Building ConsenSys
  35. Changing the Boundaries of the Firm
  36. Determining Corporate Boundaries
  37. CHAPTER 5: New Business Models: Making It Rain on the Blockchain
  38. bAirbnb Versus Airbnb
  39. Global Computing: The Rise of Distributed Applications
  40. The DApp Kings: Distributed Business Entities
  41. Autonomous Agents
  42. Distributed Autonomous Enterprises
  43. The Big Seven: Open Networked Enterprise Business Models
  44. Hacking Your Future: Business Model Innovation
  45. CHAPTER 6: The Ledger of Things: Animating the Physical World
  46. Power to the People
  47. The Evolution of Computing: From Mainframes to Smart Pills
  48. The Internet of Things Needs a Ledger of Things
  49. The Twelve Disruptions: Animating Things
  50. The Economic Payoff
  51. The Future: From Uber to SUber
  52. Hacking Your Future for a World of Smart Things
  53. CHAPTER 7: Solving the Prosperity Paradox: Economic Inclusion and Entrepreneurship
  54. A Pig Is Not a Piggy Bank
  55. The New Prosperity Paradox
  56. Road Map to Prosperity
  57. Remittances: The Story of Analie Domingo
  58. Blockchain Humanitarian Aid
  59. Safe as Houses? The Road to Asset Ownership
  60. Implementation Challenges and Leadership Opportunities

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