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Yet many other cryptocurrency believers, including a cross section of techies and businessmen who see a chance to disrupt the bank-centric payments system, are de facto chartalists. They describe bitcoin not as a currency but as a payments protocol. They are less concerned about its appeal as an intrinsically valuable thing and more with the underl

Paul Vigna , Michael J. Casey • The Age of Cryptocurrency

Larimer gets animated as he spells out idea after idea for DACs built on BitShares’ platform. The spindly developer from Blacksburg, Virginia, talks about musicians founding DACs that issue shares in their songs.

Paul Vigna , Michael J. Casey • The Age of Cryptocurrency

10. Power is decentralizing away from the United States and China

Parag Khanna, Balaji S. Srinivasan • Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Web3 Are Already Reshaping the World

Joe examines many problems with the internet giants of today (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Google, Netflix) and how they take advantage of the individuals who use their platforms, stating, “By addicting us to their systems they keep us sellable.” He continues to describe the misalignment of incentives which has resulted in humans becoming the product as... See more

Joseph Lubin • Blockchain Explained: How Web 3.0 Will Create New Business Models

By default, everything is encrypted. By virtue of decentralizing the information architecture elements, each user can own their private data, and central repositories are less vulnerable to data losses or breaches because they only store encrypted information and coded pointers to distributed storage locations that are spread across distributed com

William Mougayar • The Business Blockchain: Promise, Practice, and Application of the Next Internet Technology

Blockchain Bubble or Revolution: The Future of Bitcoin, Blockchains, and Cryptocurrencies

Neel Mehta

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The Little Bitcoin Book: Why Bitcoin Matters for Your Freedom, Finances, and Future

Timi Ajiboye

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Two significant innovations underpin Bitcoin: a technological one, namely the public and distributed ledger technology called “blockchain,” which securely maintains an immutable record of all user transactions, and an organizational innovation, namely, the existence of an open network of users with special roles and rights called “miners”, who lend... See more

Bitcoin and the rise of decentralized autonomous organizations - Journal of Organization Design

Here is another new paradigm about the blockchain: data and programs are public. Semi-public to be precise, because the information is cryptographically secure, and only visible if you have access rights. It means anyone can publish data on the blockchains. Previously, everything important was behind hidden databases, or a physical service counter,