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The authors show the challenge of replacing trusted (and not-so-trusted) institutions on which we've relied for centuries with a radical model that bypasses them. This book 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.

The goal of this book is to serve as an introduction to the broader architecture and conceptual background of the blockchain technology. Examining how Blockchain, Bitcoin and Ethereum are used in the real world.

This book begins with the technical foundations of blockchain, exploring principles of cryptocurrency and how it keeps data secure. Farther you will learn how applications works on Ethereum, and how to implement blockchain beyond currencies and its scalability.

This book aims to help you get your head around blockchains in general and around Ethereum specifically. Showing the benefits of Ethereum, how it is used and what can be done with it.

This book in Part I provides an introduction to blockchain concepts, design patterns, architectures and applications. In Part II introduces tools and platforms for blockchain providing various examples of smart contracts and Dapps examples. Finally in Part III focuses on advanced topics such as the security and scalability related challenges for the blockchain platforms.

The author anticipates a future that consists of thousands, if not millions of Blockchains that will enable not only friction-less value exchange, but also a new flow of value, redefining roles, relationships, power and governance.

This book provides a way to parse through what Satoshi Nakamoto wrote over the span of the two years that constituted his "public life". Learn more about Bitcoin directly from the source. You need to understand Bitcoin and it's implications for the future in order to understand blockchains and the promise that it holds.

This book is an effort to make sense of how Blockchain Alterative offers sensible corrections to outdated social policies. Read if you are seeking a deeper understand of the current financial system, the Blockchain, and the future of Capitalism.

Blockchain is a public ledger to which everyone has access, but which no single person controls. It allows to collaborate with an unprecedented degree of trust and transparency. This book reveal how this game-changing technology will shape the future of the world economy, improving everything from healthcare records to artist royalties.

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.

The first half of the book covers the often ignored history of cooperation, the evolution of the need for control, the transformation of the creation and coordination of value, and the state of markets and modern commerce today decorated with fraud. In the second half, the Author paints a journey for the evolution to trusted commerce driven by Blockchain.

This book will show you the basics of the Blockchain without technical background needed. It does so by explaining both the technical concepts that make up the Blockchain and their role in business-relevant applications.