TY - BOOK AU - Tapscott,Don AU - Tapscott,Alex TI - Blockchain revolution: how the technology behind bitcoin is changing money, business, and the world SN - 9781101980132 (hbk) AV - HG 1710 T175b 2016 U1 - 332.1 23 PY - 2016///] CY - New York PB - Portfolio / Penguin KW - Electronic funds transfers KW - Blockchains (Databases) KW - Bitcoin KW - Electronic commerce KW - Mobile commerce KW - Banks and banking KW - Technological innovations KW - Financial institutions KW - Bitcoin (Moneda electrónica) KW - Blockchain (Bases de datos) KW - Comercio electrónico KW - Criptomonedas KW - Comercio móvil KW - Instituciones financieras KW - Innovaciones tecnológicas KW - Bancos N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-336) and index; Part I: Say you want a revolution. 1. The trust protocol -- 2. Bootstrapping the future: seven design principles of the blockchain economy -- Part II: Transformations. 3. Reinventing financial services -- 4. Re-architecting the firm: the core and the edges -- 5. New business models: making it rain on the blockchain -- 6. The ledger of things: animating the physical world -- 7. Solving the prosperity paradox: economic inclusion and entrepreneurship -- 8. Rebuilding government and democracy -- 9. Freeing culture on the blockchain: music to our ears -- Part III: Promise and peril. 10. Overcoming showstoppers: ten implementation challenges -- 11. Leadership for the next era N2 - The Internet as we know it is great for collaboration and communication, but is deeply flawed when it comes to commerce and privacy. The new blockchain technology facilitates peer-to-peer transactions without any intermediary such as a bank or governing body. Keeping the user's information anonymous, the blockchain validates and keeps a permanent public record of all transactions. That means that your personal information is private and secure, while all activity is transparent and incorruptible--reconciled by mass collaboration and stored in code on a digital ledger. With its advent, we will not need to trust each other in the traditional sense, because trust is built into the system itself ER -