Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Introduction
1 Rise of the DAOs
King for a Day
Does Your Vote Really Count?
What a Wonderful, Trustless World
Why the First DAO Had to Fall
New‐Age Tribes
2 When the World Becomes Your Village…
When We Left Gold Behind…
The Corruption of Trade
Decentralized Trading, Reputation Tokens, and the Death of the Irresponsible Influencer‐Marketer
Can't Buy Me Love…
3 The New Centralization
Who Owns the Fed?
To Teach the World to Sing in Perfect Harmony
Central Bank Digital Currencies and Data Collection
Is Anything Real Anymore?
You Can't Always Get What You Want…
4 Tower of Babel 2.0
Lost in Translation
The Language of Progress
The Byzantine Generals Problem
Creating Consensus and Spreading It
The Antichrist is Coming
5 Soul Beyond Face Value
Digital Gangsters' Paradise
The Angry Face Algorithm
It's a Long Road From Rakhine
If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next
Your Soul Defines You
Notes
6 Back to Africa
We are Family? We are Françafrique
The Last Colonial Currency
The African Union?
The Last Digital Frontier
Notes
7 The American Way
The United States of Isolation
The Fall of the Petrodollar
Defeating the Dollar
The New Bretton Woods
8 When We Meet in the Metaverse…
Beyond the Planet of the Bored Apes
When Worlds Collide…
A Meaningful Place
9 Of Builders and Villains…
Walking on the Moon: The Rise and Fall of Terra LUNA
Sex, Drugs, and Balance Sheets: How a Bunch of Kids Created and Destroyed FTX
Speculation, the Language of Fools
10 The Nature of a Nurturer: Reflecting on the Klaytn Journey
A Blockchain to Connect All Blockchains
TPS is King
Building on Top of The World's Blockchain
Shared Governance of a Shared Ecosystem
Notes
11 A Brave New World
I'm Still Walking, So I'm Sure I Can Dance
The First Days are the Hardest Days
You Speak My Language
Notes
Index
End User License Agreement
Guide
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright
Introduction
Table of Contents
Begin Reading
Index
Wiley End User License Agreement
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