August 2019
Intermediate to advanced
160 pages
2h 36m
English
book
Blockchain
by Harvard Business Review, Catherine Tucker, Don Tapscott, Marco Iansiti, Karim R. Lakhani
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Contents
- Introduction
- Blockchain and the Data Integrity Revolution
- Imagine a world in which data can’t be corrupted, hacked, or lost.
- by Catherine Tucker
- Section 1
- Understanding Blockchain
- 1. The Truth About Blockchain
- It will take years to transform business, but the journey begins now.
- by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani
- 2. A Brief History of Blockchain
- It’s come a long way in 10 years.
- by Vinay Gupta
- 3. The Blockchain Will Do to the Financial System What the Internet Did to Media
- What we can learn from the evolution of another groundbreaking technology.
- by Joichi Ito, Neha Narula, and Robleh Ali
- 4. Who Controls the Blockchain?
- No one, and everyone, by design.
- by Patrick Murck
- 5. How Safe Are Blockchains? It Depends
- The security ...
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