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From the authors of the fascinating The Age of Cryptocurrency, comes the definitive work on the Internet's next big thing: the blockchain.

Many of the 'legacy systems' once designed to make our lives easier and our economy more efficient are no longer up to the task; big banks have grown more entrenched, privacy exists only until the next hack, and credit card fraud has become a fact of life. However, there is a way past all this a new kind of operating system with the potential to revolutionise 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 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 a balanced perspective, Casey and Vigna show why we all must care about the path that blockchain technology takes moving humanity forward, not backward.

PRODUCT DETAILS :

ISBN : 9780008301774
BY (AUTHOR) Casey, Michael J., BY (AUTHOR) Vigna, Paul
PUBLISHER : HarperCollins Publishers	PUBLICATION DATE : March 22, 2018
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom	IMPRINT : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
LANGUAGE : English	AGE : General
PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback

DIMENSION : 234 mm x 153 mm
WEIGHT : 420 g

PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Computing & Information Technology
Economics, Finance, Business & Management

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