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EULA
by Vitalik Buterin, William Mougayar
The Business Blockchain
Foreword
Acknowledgments
A Personal Preface
Notes
Introduction
1: What is the Blockchain?
Visiting Satoshi’s Paper
The Web, All Over Again
One or Several Blockchains?
Introduction to Blockchain Applications
The Blockchain’s Narrative is Strong
A Meta Technology
Software, Game Theory and Cryptography
The Database vs. The Ledger
Looking Back So We Can Look Forward
Unpacking the Blockchain
State Transitions and State Machines— What Are They?
The Consensus Algorithms
Key Ideas from Chapter One
Notes
2: How Blockchain Trust Infiltrates
A New Trust Layer
Decentralization of Trust—What Does it Mean?
How Airbnb Designed Trust for Strangers
A Spectrum of Trust Services Based on Proofs
The Blockchain Landscape
Benefits and Indirect Benefits
Explaining Some Basic Functions
What Does a Trusted Blockchain Enable?
Identity Ownerships & Representation
Decentralized Data Security
Anonymity & Untraceable Communication
Blockchain as Cloud
Getting to Millions of Blockchains
Key Ideas from Chapter Two
Notes
3: Obstacles, Challenges, & Mental Blocks
Attacking the Blockchain with a Framework Approach
Technical Challenges
Market/Business Challenges
Legal/Regulatory Barriers
Behavioral/Educational Challenges
Key Ideas from Chapter Three
Notes
4: Blockchain in Financial Services
Attacked by the Internet and Fintech
Why Can't There be a Global Bank?
Banks as Backends
Blockchain Inside Regulations Versus Permissionless Innovation
Landscape of Blockchain Companies in Financial Services
Blockchain Applications in Financial Services
Strategic Questions for Financial Services
Key Ideas from Chapter Four
Notes
5: Lighthouse Industries & New Intermediaries
The New Intermediaries
Lighthouse Industries
Key Ideas from Chapter Five
Notes
6: Implementing Blockchain Technology
Internal Strategies for Tackling the Blockchain
The Blockchain Czar
Organizational Models
A Blockchain Functional Architecture
Core & Protocol
Blockchain Software Development
Writing Decentralized Applications
12 Features of a Blockchain Platform
Decision-Making Framework
Key Ideas from Chapter Six
Notes
7: Decentralization as the Way Forward
What Happened to the Decentralized Internet?
It’s not Easy Being Decentralized
What Will Decentralization Look Like
The Crypto Economy
A New Flow of Value
How Technology Permeates
Peering Into 2025
Key Ideas from Chapter Seven
Notes
Epilogue
Selected Bibliography
Index
Additional Resources
About the Author
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