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

Written by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott

Narrated by Jeff Cummings

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The technology likely to have the greatest impact on the future of the world economy has arrived, and it's not self-driving cars, solar energy, or artificial intelligence.
It's called the blockchain.

The first generation of the digital revolution brought us the Internet of information. The second generation-powered by blockchain technology-is bringing us the Internet of value: a new, distributed platform that can help us reshape the world of business and transform the old order of human affairs for the better.

Blockchain is the ingeniously simple, revolutionary protocol that allows transactions to be simultaneously anonymous and secure by maintaining a tamperproof public ledger of value. Though it's the technology that drives bitcoin and other digital currencies, the underlying framework has the potential to go far beyond these and record virtually everything of value to humankind, from birth and death certificates to insurance claims and even votes.

Why should you care? Maybe you're a music lover who wants artists to make a living off their art. Or a consumer who wants to know where that hamburger meat really came from. Perhaps you're an immigrant who's sick of paying big fees to send money home to loved ones. Or an entrepreneur looking for a new platform to build a business.

And those examples are barely the tip of the iceberg. This technology is public, encrypted, and readily available for anyone to use. It's already seeing widespread adoption in a number of areas. For example, forty-two (and counting) of the world's biggest financial institutions, including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Credit Suisse, have formed a consortium to investigate the blockchain for speedier and more secure transactions.

As with major paradigm shifts that preceded it, the blockchain will create winners and losers. And while opportunities abound, the risks of disruption and dislocation must not be ignored.

Don Tapscott, the bestselling author of Wikinomics, and his son, blockchain expert Alex Tapscott, bring us a brilliantly researched, highly readable, and utterly foundational book about the future of the modern economy. Blockchain Revolution is the business leaders' playbook for the next decade and beyond.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateMay 10, 2016
ISBN9781511357654
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Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World
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Don Tapscott

Canadian author, executive and consultant Don Tapscott specialises in business strategy, organisational transformation and the role of technology in business. He is the author and co-author of many bestselling books, including Growing up Digital, Grown up Digital and the spectacularly successful Wikinomics.

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  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    A dull dystopian fantasy about applications of blockchain technology that might change the world, without actually telling you how it works. Lots of words without really saying much, no technical details, the authors seem to think cryptography is some sort of magic.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    The blockchain is revolutionary. This book however is nothing but pointless speculation about how awesome the future will be. Let's hope so. This book could help by maybe explaining the technology or telling the history of various projects, describing different systems available now. Instead it's just constant bombastic predictions and general exuberant excitement.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This is a primer of what Blockchain can potentially do. It's pretty good for someone who wants to get his/her feet wet.Emphasis on honesty, consideration, accountability and transparency for a successful business resonated well with me. The section on Proof of Work was crystal clear as well.Portions of the book seem idealistic, but we'll need to wait and watch to see how far Blockchain can revolutionize our world.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I personally think this was afresh breath of air! You can only do so much "technical explanation of Blockchain". rakerman_1 most be a democrat LOL. Wonderful written book/Great narrating. Keep up the good WORK!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    An excellent reference in this field. Only a few books can be characterized as such...
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Ungrounded utopian technobabble. No technical explanation of Blockchain. Mostly about Bitcoin; a bunch of cybercurrency scenarios without any serious analysis or scepticism. I just skimmed it because I rapidly realised you could replace "Blockchain" with "magic box" and have exactly the same book.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    More about IoT than blockchain but still interesting. Interesting ideas but no info about how it works behind the concept.

    1 person found this helpful