bookMay 7, 2016Closed access

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

Abstract

The technology likely to have the greatest impact on the future of the world economy has arrived, and its not self-driving cars, solar energy, or artificial intelligence. Its called the blockchain. The first generation of the digital revolution brought us the Internet of information. The second generationpowered by blockchain technologyis 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 its the technology…

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Keywords
  • Blockchain
  • Ledger
  • Value (mathematics)
  • The Internet
  • Digital Revolution
  • Commerce
  • Order (exchange)
  • Business
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