The Truth Machine
The Blockchain and the Future of Everything
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The Truth Machine
Acheter pour 29,47 $
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Narrateur(s):
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Sean Runnette
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Auteur(s):
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Paul Vigna
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Michael J. Casey
"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." —Lawrence 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 audiobook on the Internet’s 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 “legacy systems” 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 this—a 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 society’s 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 we’ve 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 listeners must care about the path that blockchain technology takes—moving humanity forward, not backward.
Ce que les critiques en disent
“With thoughtful and well researched analysis, The Truth Machine leads you through a history of cryptocurrencies and blockchains that reveals the path forward towards a decentralized economy, one in which opportunity and access are widely spread.” —Andreas M Antonopoulos, author of Mastering Bitcoin and The Internet of Money series
“The Truth Machine is a brilliant, beautifully written guide to the blockchain revolution that is redefining “trust” for our increasingly globalized world.” —Hernando de Soto, President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy, author of The Mystery of Capital
“Casey and Vigna are among the blockchain and digital-currency sector's most important visionaries. They are shaping a new understanding of how we can gain greater personal control over our data, assets, identities and creations to forge a more inclusive, collaborative and innovative society.” —Imogen Heap, Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter and founder of Mycelia
“Casey and Vigna have done it again! It turns out that digital currencies may only be the spark for the next major revolution in business and society. The implications of trust being the blockchain’s real killer app cannot be ignored by any serious investor.” —“Downtown” Josh Brown, CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management, star of CNBC’s The Halftime Report
“This unparalleled examination of the blockchain landscape will open people's eyes to how a decentralized information system can level the playing field for humanity.” —Mariana Dahan, founder and CEO, World Identity Network, first coordinator of The World Bank's Identification for Development (ID4D) Initiative
“In The Truth Machine, Casey and Vigna describe, in vivid detail, both the theory and practice of the coming block-chain revolution, giving us a powerful technological roadmap to a more participatory future in the digital age.” —Jeremy Rifkin, author of The Zero Marginal Cost Society
“[The] world…is at a digital and legal turning point. The ‘truth,’ Casey and Vigna show us, is that to move forward we must rethink how information, markets, and value work. A wonderful read—heartily recommended.” —Brett King, bestselling author of Augmented, host of the Breaking Banks Radio Show
Lays out the blockchain for what it is, could be, should be and might be. The only fault I found was that the authors continues petty swipes at current political institutions and figures ultimately weaken it's arguments and will, sadly date the message.
...it's a relevant message, ignore the authors arrogance and you should enjoy the read!
Must Read for all Who's Life is Effected by Tech..
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Pro tip: If you read this and your interested in what's possible as the result of decentralization check out Holochain. I'm not talking about buying the coin, I mean consider building a decentralized app or selling some of your processing power for decentralized web hosting. It's scalable, based on biomimicry principles and far more energy efficient than any current blockchain project. It's actually even more revolutionary than blockchain.
This book will open the door to what is possible as the result of structural changes. You will then go down the rabbit whole of exploring many projects and a lot of them are scams so beware. Trying to save you some time. ;)
Regardless enjoy the book. A better world is possible. Some of the pieces of the puzzle are here.
The best book on blockchain use cases so far...
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