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Blockchn Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Reshaping Money, Business, and Society
This book is a comprehensive explanation of how blockchn technology - which powers revolutionary digital currency like Bitcoin - will fundamentally change our current internet-based systems, including commerce, privacy, and governance. It's Don Tapscott, an eminent theorist on the digital age, who was among the first to articulate the transformative impact of the Internet as a platform for mass collaboration through Wikinomics.
While the contemporary web is a powerful tool for connection and communication, it has significant shortcomings in facilitating commerce transactions and ensuring privacy. This blockchn technology enables secure peer-to-peer transactions without the need for conventional intermediaries like banks or governing authorities. It ensures that users' personal information remns confidential while providing transparency and immutability of all actions through mass collaboration and digital record-keeping in code.
Blockchn goes beyond merely serving as a platform for digital currencies; it's a groundbreaking computer science innovation with applications far beyond Bitcoin. For instance, the technology can store any legal document, from deeds to marriage certificates, education degrees, birth records, and more - essentially creating a global ledger of all transactions that is decentralized, open, distributed, and trusted through code itself.
Don Tapscott, joined by his son Alex, a financial analyst and technologist, predicts that this technology will reshape the next era of prosperity across sectors like finance, business, healthcare, education, governance, and beyond. Blockchn's potential to disrupt traditional systems suggests it will be transformative for collaborative online environments as well as in areas where trust is traditionally paramount.
Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott, through their work on Blockchn Revolution, provide a on how the advent of blockchn technology represents an exciting opportunity to redefine existing global platforms. It offers insight into its diverse applications beyond cryptocurrencies and reveals what the 'Ledger of Everything' could mean for society.
Portfolio May 10, 2016
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