Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business and the World
Don Tapscott, the author of Wikinomics, shows how the blockchain will shape the next era of prosperity in finance, business, healthcare, education, governance, and many other fields.
Blockchain technology is powering our future. As the technology behind cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, open software platforms like Ethereum, and disruptive companies like Ripple, it’s too important to ignore.
In this book, Don Tapscott, the bestselling author of Wikinomics, and his son, blockchain expert Alex Tapscott, bring us a brilliantly researched, highly readable, and essential book about the technology driving the future of the economy.
Blockchain is the ingeniously simple, revolution-ary protocol that allows transactions to be simultaneously anonymous and secure by maintaining a tamperproof public ledger of value. Though it’s best known as the technology that drives bitcoin and other digital cur-rencies, it also has the potential to go far beyond currency, to record virtually everything of value to humankind, from birth and death certifi-cates to insurance claims, land titles, and even votes.
Blockchain is also essential to understand if you’re an artist who wants to make a living off your art, a consumer who wants to know where that hamburger meat really came from, an immigrant who’s tired of paying big fees to send money home to your loved ones, or an entrepreneur looking for a new platform to build a business. And those examples are barely the tip of the iceberg.
As with major paradigm shifts that preceded it, blockchain technology will create winners and losers. This book shines a light on where it can lead us in the next decade and beyond.
Author
Named one of the world’s most important living management thinkers by Thinkers50, Don Tapscott advises business and government leaders around the globe.
Reviews
In ‘Blockchain Revolution,’ Don and Alex brilliantly illuminates the technology that could profoundly impact the way we manage issues of trust, security and privacy for years to come.
– Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO Pepsico
“A masterpiece. Gracefully dissects the potential of blockchain technology to take on today’s most pressing global challenges.”
– Hernando de Soto, economist and President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy, Peru
“Blockchain Revolution is a highly readable introduction to a bamboozling but increasingly important field.”
– The Guardian
“This is all very new and still unfolding but I recommend that you read Blockchain Revolution…it really is time to get with the global revolution.”
– The Huffington Post
