Book description
Bitcoin is starting to come into its own as a digital currency, but the blockchain technology behind it could prove to be much 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 become 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 worldwide, 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 verify identity
- Possibility of cheaper, more efficient services traditionally provided by nations
- Blockchain for science: making better use of the data-mining network
- Personal health record storage, including access to one’s own genomic data
- Open access academic publishing on the blockchain
This book is part of an ongoing O’Reilly series. Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Crypto-Currencies introduces Bitcoin and describes the technology behind Bitcoin and the blockchain. Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy considers theoretical, philosophical, and societal impact of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies.
Publisher resources
Table of contents
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Preface
- Currency, Contracts, and Applications beyond Financial Markets
- Blockchain 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0
- What Is Bitcoin?
- What Is the Blockchain?
- The Connected World and Blockchain: The Fifth Disruptive Computing Paradigm
- Mainstream Adoption: Trust, Usability, Ease of Use
- Intention, Methodology, and Structure of this Book
- Safari® Books Online
- How to Contact Us
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Blockchain 1.0: Currency
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2. Blockchain 2.0: Contracts
- Financial Services
- Crowdfunding
- Bitcoin Prediction Markets
- Smart Property
- Smart Contracts
- Blockchain 2.0 Protocol Projects
- Wallet Development Projects
- Blockchain Development Platforms and APIs
- Blockchain Ecosystem: Decentralized Storage, Communication, and Computation
- Ethereum: Turing-Complete Virtual Machine
- Dapps, DAOs, DACs, and DASs: Increasingly Autonomous Smart Contracts
- The Blockchain as a Path to Artificial Intelligence
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3. Blockchain 3.0: Justice Applications Beyond Currency, Economics, and Markets
- Blockchain Technology Is a New and Highly Effective Model for Organizing Activity
- Distributed Censorship-Resistant Organizational Models
- Namecoin: Decentralized Domain Name System
- Digital Identity Verification
- Digital Art: Blockchain Attestation Services (Notary, Intellectual Property Protection)
- Blockchain Government
- 4. Blockchain 3.0: Efficiency and Coordination Applications Beyond Currency, Economics, and Markets
- 5. Advanced Concepts
- 6. Limitations
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7. Conclusion
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The Blockchain Is an Information Technology
- Blockchain AI: Consensus as the Mechanism to Foster “Friendly” AI
- Large Possibility Space for Intelligence
- Only Friendly AIs Are Able to Get Their Transactions Executed
- Smart Contract Advocates on Behalf of Digital Intelligence
- Blockchain Consensus Increases the Information Resolution of the Universe
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The Blockchain Is an Information Technology
- A. Cryptocurrency Basics
- B. Ledra Capital Mega Master Blockchain List
- Endnotes and References
- Index
Product information
- Title: Blockchain
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2015
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781491920497
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