Book
The truth machine : the blockchain and the future of everything / Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250114570 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xii, 302 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2018.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Preface -- Introduction: a society-building tool -- The God protocol -- "Governing" the digital economy -- The plumbing and the politics -- The token economy -- Enabling the fourth industrial revolution -- The Old Guard's new makeover -- Blockchains for good -- A self-sovereign identity -- Everyone's a creator -- A new constitution for the digital age. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Blockchains (Databases) Bitcoin. Database security. Banks and banking. Electronic commerce. Electronic funds transfers. Currency question. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Lakeshore Branch | 332.42 Cas | 31681010090538 | NONFIC | Available | - |
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The co-authors ofThe Age of Cryptocurrency demystify the blockchain, a new kind of operating system with the potential to revolutionize the vast swaths of our economy, explaining the ways in which it can restore personal control over our data, assets and identities and shift the balance of power to revive societyâs faith in itself. - McMillan Palgrave
"Views differ on bitcoin, but few doubt the transformative potential of Blockchain technology. The Truth Machine is the best book so far on what has happened and what may come along. It demands the attention of anyone concerned with our economic future." âLawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard, Former Treasury Secretary
From Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna, the authors of The Age of Cryptocurrency, comes the definitive work on the Internetâs Next Big Thing: The Blockchain.
Big banks have grown bigger and more entrenched. Privacy exists only until the next hack. Credit card fraud is a fact of life. Many of the âlegacy systemsâ once designed to make our lives easier and our economy more efficient are no longer up to the task. Yet there is a way past all thisâa new kind of operating system with the potential to revolutionize vast swaths of our economy: the blockchain.
In The Truth Machine, Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna demystify the blockchain and explain why it can restore personal control over our data, assets, and identities; grant billions of excluded people access to the global economy; and shift the balance of power to revive societyâs faith in itself. They reveal the disruption it promises for industries including finance, tech, legal, and shipping.
Casey and Vigna expose the challenge of replacing trusted (and not-so-trusted) institutions on which weâve relied for centuries with a radical model that bypasses them. The Truth Machine reveals the empowerment possible when self-interested middlemen give way to the transparency of the blockchain, while highlighting the job losses, assertion of special interests, and threat to social cohesion that will accompany this shift. With the same balanced perspective they brought to The Age of Cryptocurrency, Casey and Vigna show why we all must care about the path that blockchain technology takesâmoving humanity forward, not backward.
