内容简介

Bitcoin is starting to come into its own as a digital currency, but the blockchain technology behind it could prove to be much more significant. 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.

Author Melanie Swan, Founder of the Institute for Blockchain Studies, explains that the blockchain is essentially a public ledger with potential as a worldwide, decentralized record for the registration, inventory, and transfer of all assets—not just finances, but property and intangible assets such as votes, software, health data, and ideas.

Topics include:

* Concepts, features, and functionality of Bitcoin and the blockchain

* Using the blockchain for automated tracking of all digital endeavors

* Enabling censorship?resistant organizational models

* Creating a decentralized digital repository to verify identity

* Possibility of cheaper, more efficient services traditionally provided by nations

* Blockchain for science: making better use of the data-mining network

* Personal health record storage, including access to one’s own genomic data

* Open access academic publishing on the blockchain

This book is part of an ongoing O’Reilly series. Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Crypto-Currencies introduces Bitcoin and describes the technology behind Bitcoin and the blockchain. Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy considers theoretical, philosophical, and societal impact of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies.

作品目录

Chapter 1

Blockchain 1.0: Currency

Technology Stack: Blockchain, Protocol, Currency

The Double-Spend and Byzantine Generals’ Computing Problems

How a Cryptocurrency Works

Summary: Blockchain 1.0 in Practical Use

Chapter 2

Blockchain 2.0: Contracts

Financial Services

Crowdfunding

Bitcoin Prediction Markets

Smart Property

Smart Contracts

Blockchain 2.0 Protocol Projects

Wallet Development Projects

Blockchain Development Platforms and APIs

Blockchain Ecosystem: Decentralized Storage, Communication, and Computation

Ethereum: Turing-Complete Virtual Machine

Dapps, DAOs, DACs, and DASs: Increasingly Autonomous Smart Contracts

The Blockchain as a Path to Artificial Intelligence

Chapter 3

Blockchain 3.0: Justice Applications Beyond Currency, Economics, and Markets

Blockchain Technology Is a New and Highly Effective Model for Organizing Activity

Distributed Censorship-Resistant Organizational Models

Namecoin: Decentralized Domain Name System

Digital Identity Verification

Digital Art: Blockchain Attestation Services (Notary, Intellectual Property Protection)

Blockchain Government

Chapter 4

Blockchain 3.0: Efficiency and Coordination Applications Beyond Currency, Economics, and Markets

Blockchain Science: Gridcoin, Foldingcoin

Blockchain Genomics

Blockchain Health

Blockchain Learning: Bitcoin MOOCs and Smart Contract Literacy

Blockchain Academic Publishing: Journalcoin

The Blockchain Is Not for Every Situation

Centralization-Decentralization Tension and Equilibrium

Chapter 5

Advanced Concepts

Terminology and Concepts

Currency, Token, Tokenizing

Currency Multiplicity: Monetary and Nonmonetary Currencies

Demurrage Currencies: Potentially Incitory and Redistributable

Chapter 6

Limitations

Technical Challenges

Business Model Challenges

Scandals and Public Perception

Government Regulation

Privacy Challenges for Personal Records

Overall: Decentralization Trends Likely to Persist

Chapter 7

Conclusion

The Blockchain Is an Information Technology

Appendix

Cryptocurrency Basics

Public/Private-Key Cryptography 101

Appendix

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