Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy

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Bitcoin is beginning to come into its own as a digital currency, but the blockchain technology at the back of it could prove to be a lot more significant. This book takes you beyond the currency (“Blockchain 1.0”) and smart contracts (“Blockchain 2.0”) to demonstrate how the blockchain is in position to turn out to be the fifth disruptive computing paradigm after mainframes, PCs, the Internet, and mobile/social networking.

Author Melanie Swan, Founder of the Institute for Blockchain Studies, explains that the blockchain is essentially a public ledger with potential as a around the globe, decentralized record for the registration, inventory, and transfer of all assets—not just finances, but property and intangible assets such as votes, software, health data, and ideas.

Topics include:

  • Concepts, features, and functionality of Bitcoin and the blockchain
  • Using the blockchain for automated tracking of all digital endeavors
  • Enabling censorship?resistant organizational models
  • Creating a decentralized digital repository to ensure identity
  • Possibility of cheaper, more efficient products and services traditionally provided by nations
  • Blockchain for science: making better use of the data-mining network
  • Personal health record storage, including get admission to to one’s own genomic data
  • Open get admission to academic publishing on the blockchain

This book is a part of an ongoing O’Reilly series. Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Crypto-Currencies introduces Bitcoin and describes the technology at the back of Bitcoin and the blockchain. Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy considers theoretical, philosophical, and societal affect of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies.

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