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Index
Blockchain
Blockchain
Revision History for the First Edition
Preface
Currency, Contracts, and Applications beyond Financial Markets
Blockchain 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0
What Is Bitcoin?
What Is the Blockchain?
The Connected World and Blockchain: The Fifth Disruptive Computing Paradigm
Figure P-1. Disruptive computing paradigms: Mainframe, PC, Internet, Social-Mobile, Blockchain8
M2M/IoT Bitcoin Payment Network to Enable the Machine Economy
Mainstream Adoption: Trust, Usability, Ease of Use
Bitcoin Culture: Bitfilm Festival
Figure P-2. Bitfilm promotional videos
Intention, Methodology, and Structure of this Book
Safari® Books Online
How to Contact Us
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Blockchain 1.0: Currency
Technology Stack: Blockchain, Protocol, Currency
The Double-Spend and Byzantine Generals’ Computing Problems
How a Cryptocurrency Works
Figure 1-1. Bitcoin ewallet app and transferring Bitcoin (image credits: Bitcoin ewallet developers and InterAksyon)
eWallet Services and Personal Cryptosecurity
Merchant Acceptance of Bitcoin
Summary: Blockchain 1.0 in Practical Use
Relation to Fiat Currency
Figure 1-2. Bitcoin price 2009 through November 2014 (source: http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/#charts)
Regulatory Status
Chapter 2. Blockchain 2.0: Contracts
Financial Services
Crowdfunding
Bitcoin Prediction Markets
Smart Property
Figure 2-1. Swancoin: limited-circulation digital asset artwork (image credit: http://swancoin.tumblr.com/)
Smart Contracts
Blockchain 2.0 Protocol Projects
Wallet Development Projects
Blockchain Development Platforms and APIs
Blockchain Ecosystem: Decentralized Storage, Communication, and Computation
Ethereum: Turing-Complete Virtual Machine
Counterparty Re-creates Ethereum’s Smart Contract Platform
Dapps, DAOs, DACs, and DASs: Increasingly Autonomous Smart Contracts
Dapps
DAOs and DACs
DASs and Self-Bootstrapped Organizations
Automatic Markets and Tradenets
The Blockchain as a Path to Artificial Intelligence
Chapter 3. Blockchain 3.0: Justice Applications Beyond Currency, Economics, and Markets
Blockchain Technology Is a New and Highly Effective Model for Organizing Activity
Extensibility of Blockchain Technology Concepts
Fundamental Economic Principles: Discovery, Value Attribution, and Exchange
Blockchain Technology Could Be Used in the Administration of All Quanta
Blockchain Layer Could Facilitate Big Data’s Predictive Task Automation
Distributed Censorship-Resistant Organizational Models
Namecoin: Decentralized Domain Name System
Challenges and Other Decentralized DNS Services
Freedom of Speech/Anti-Censorship Applications: Alexandria and Ostel
Decentralized DNS Functionality Beyond Free Speech: Digital Identity
Digital Identity Verification
Blockchain Neutrality
Digital Divide of Bitcoin
Digital Art: Blockchain Attestation Services (Notary, Intellectual Property Protection)
Hashing Plus Timestamping
Proof of Existence
Figure 3-1. “Last documents registered” digest from Proof of Existence
Limitations
Virtual Notary, Bitnotar, and Chronobit
Monegraph: Online Graphics Protection
Digital Asset Proof as an Automated Feature
Batched Notary Chains as a Class of Blockchain Infrastructure
Personal Thinking Blockchains
Blockchain Government
Decentralized Governance Services
Figure 3-2. World’s first Bitcoin wedding, David Mondrus and Joyce Bayo, Disneyworld, Florida, October 5, 2014 (image credit: Bitcoin Magazine, Ruben Alexander)
Figure 3-3. The World Citizen Project’s Blockchain-based passport (image credit: Chris Ellis)
PrecedentCoin: Blockchain Dispute Resolution
Liquid Democracy and Random-Sample Elections
Random-Sample Elections
Futarchy: Two-Step Democracy with Voting + Prediction Markets
Societal Maturity Impact of Blockchain Governance
Chapter 4. Blockchain 3.0: Efficiency and Coordination Applications Beyond Currency, Economics, and Markets
Blockchain Science: Gridcoin, Foldingcoin
Community Supercomputing
Global Public Health: Bitcoin for Contagious Disease Relief
Charity Donations and the Blockchain—Sean’s Outpost
Blockchain Genomics
Blockchain Genomics 2.0: Industrialized All-Human-Scale Sequencing Solution
Blockchain Technology as a Universal Order-of-Magnitude Progress Model
Genomecoin, GenomicResearchcoin
Blockchain Health
Healthcoin
EMRs on the Blockchain: Personal Health Record Storage
Blockchain Health Research Commons
Blockchain Health Notary
Doctor Vendor RFP Services and Assurance Contracts
Virus Bank, Seed Vault Backup
Blockchain Learning: Bitcoin MOOCs and Smart Contract Literacy
Learncoin
Learning Contract Exchanges
Blockchain Academic Publishing: Journalcoin
The Blockchain Is Not for Every Situation
Centralization-Decentralization Tension and Equilibrium
Chapter 5. Advanced Concepts
Terminology and Concepts
Currency, Token, Tokenizing
Communitycoin: Hayek’s Private Currencies Vie for Attention
Campuscoin
Coin Drops as a Strategy for Public Adoption
Currency: New Meanings
Currency Multiplicity: Monetary and Nonmonetary Currencies
Demurrage Currencies: Potentially Incitory and Redistributable
Extensibility of Demurrage Concept and Features
Chapter 6. Limitations
Technical Challenges
Business Model Challenges
Scandals and Public Perception
Government Regulation
Privacy Challenges for Personal Records
Overall: Decentralization Trends Likely to Persist
Chapter 7. Conclusion
The Blockchain Is an Information Technology
Blockchain AI: Consensus as the Mechanism to Foster “Friendly” AI
Large Possibility Space for Intelligence
Only Friendly AIs Are Able to Get Their Transactions Executed
Smart Contract Advocates on Behalf of Digital Intelligence
Blockchain Consensus Increases the Information Resolution of the Universe
Appendix A. Cryptocurrency Basics
Public/Private-Key Cryptography 101
Appendix B. Ledra Capital Mega Master Blockchain List
Endnotes and References
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