Don Tapscott

Alex Tapscott

The first book to explain why blockchain technology will fundamentally change the Internet, what it does, and how we use it Over the past 30 years, no theorist of the digital age has better explained the next big thing than Don Tapscott. For example, in Wikinomics, Tapscott was the first to show how the Internet provides the first global platform for mass collaboration. Now, he writes about a profound technological shift that will change how the world does business--and everything else--using blockchain technology, which powers the digital currency Bitcoin. 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 one another in the traditional sense, because trust is built into the system itself. Although many opportunities for the blockchain require a digital currency, Bitcoin is only one application of this great innovation in computer science. The blockchain can hold any legal document, from deeds and marriage licences to educational degrees and birth certificates. Call it the World Wide Ledger. It enables smart contracts, decentralized autonomous organizations, decentralized government services, and transactions among things. The Internet of Everything needs a Ledger of Everything: the blockchain is a truly open, distributed, global platform that fundamentally changes what we can do online, how we do it, and who can participate. Tapscott, writing with his son Alex, a financial analyst and technologist, argues that the blockchain will shape the next era of prosperity--in finance, business, healthcare, education, governance, and beyond.

The Brilliant Technology Changing Money, Business and the World

Blockchain Revolution

Las primeras cuatro décadas de internet nos han proporcionado, entre otros avances, el correo electrónico, la world wide web, las redes sociales y el almacenamiento en la nube. Todo ello, nos ha permitido reducir los costes de investigar, colaborar e intercambiar información y ha ocasionado la aparición de nuevos medios de comunicación y entretenimiento. Pero internet tiene serias limitaciones para la actividad económica, ya que seguimos sin poder establecer de una manera fiable la identidad del otro ni confiar en él para intercambiar dinero sin el aval de un tercero, quien además almacena nuestros datos con fines lucrativos o de seguridad. Por fin, esto está cambiando. Gracias al blockchain podemos enviar dinero de manera directa y segura a otra persona sin que intermedie un banco, una tarjeta de crédito o PayPal. Además, nuestra información de usuario permanece privada y segura mientras que toda actividad es transparente e incorruptible. No es necesario confiar en el otro porque la confianza es intrínseca al sistema. Aunque el bitcoin es una de sus aplicaciones existentes más conocidas, esta tecnología abre un nuevo mundo de posibilidades dado que puede albergar cualquier tipo de documento legal sin que ningún Estado, persona o empresa las controle o fiscalice, desde partidas de nacimiento y defunción, escrituras e historiales clínicos hasta votos, origen de los alimentos y cualquier cosa que pueda codificarse.

Descubre cómo esta nueva tecnología transformará la economía global

La revolución blockchain

This book offers readers a startling view of how blockchain technology will transform the financial industry in profound ways. Some of the world's top thinkers in blockchain have contributed chapters that survey the coming digital storm - how it will level the playing field, give individuals more financial power, and create greater transparency in operations. Written for the educated financial reader, it reveals how blockchain can create a token-based incentive system that aligns the interests of participants in large-scale initiatives, as well as the rewiring of global payment networks and innovative financing methods such as initial coin offerings to fund infrastructure development. The transition for the financial industry is bound to be complicated, but it presents enormous opportunity for those who understand the storm as it's brewing. "In Financial Services Revolution, Alex Tapscott opens a window into a dynamic future, featuring the early stages of a transition to a natively digital global economy, sporting various degrees of decentralization. It will be a complicated transition for financial, economic, social, and political systems, but I see it as one pregnant with hope and promise." - Joseph Lubin, CEO, ConsenSys "Nobody has a better handle on the coming digital storm and its broad implications than Alex Tapscott. In Financial Services Revolution, Alex lays out the blueprint for how to survive and then thrive in this era of digital disruption." - Harris Fricker, President and CEO, GMP Securities LP "Alex Tapscott is one of the blockchain industry's foremost leaders and earliest believers. His work as an investor, advocate, educator, and business builder has contributed immense value to the development of the digital asset market." - Cole Diamond, Chairman and CEO, Coinsquare "This book will help successful financial services leaders with a pressing need: to relentlessly push the boundaries of their tech knowledge, with imagination around its application." - Dean Connor, President and CEO, Sun Life Financial "Blockchain has the potential to transform financial services in profound ways, to level playing fields, favour collaboration over competition, and enable the individual to enjoy as much agency as the corporation does today in financial matters. This book explains how. A must-read." - Joseph Lubin, CEO, ConsenSys "This book shows how blockchain is a game changer for data and transfer of value -at the heart of financial and government services today. " - Linda Mantia, former Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Manulife Financial "It was an honour to contribute to the Blockchain Research Institute's comprehensive investigation into blockchain's promise and the challenges that come with it. This is a must-read volume for anyone interested in this potentially transformative technology." - Michael Casey, Chief Content Officer, CoinDesk "Thoroughly researched and brimming with new insights, Financial Services Revolutionis required reading for every Wall Street banker and all who care about the future of money and finance." - Bill Barhydt, CEO and Founder, Abra "Alex Tapscott has been among the first and most thoughtful contributors to the global conversation on the future of finance. This book extends that dialogue. It looks at how financial services might approach a technological revolution originally designed to disintermediate it." - Matthew Roszak, Chairman and Co-founder, Bloq

How Blockchain Is Transforming Money, Markets, and Banking

Financial Services Revolution

An essential introduction and guide to navigating the next Internet revolution—everything from the metaverse and NFTs to DAOs, decentralized finance, and self-sovereign identity—from the co-author of the international bestseller Blockchain Revolution. The Internet is entering a new age. We’ve moved from the “Read-only Web,” which had little functionality for interacting with content, to the “Read-Write Web,” which offered seemingly endless collaborative opportunities, from sharing with our favorite people to shopping at our favorite brands. But the profusion of cyberattacks, data hacks, and online profiling have left many of us to view digital life as a Faustian bargain in need of a major rethink. That rethink is Web3, the “Read-Write-Own Web”—a decentralized Internet where individuals own their own identities and can securely trade assets like money, securities, intellectual property, and art peer to peer. Made possible by blockchains, the foundational technology of bitcoin, Web3 promises the biggest shake up of business since the invention of double-entry bookkeeping in the Middle Ages. It is the Internet’s new frontier. In Web3, award-winning author and technology investor Alex Tapscott provides a cutting-edge guide to the Internet’s next era. Covering everything from the metaverse and non-fungible tokens to DAOs, decentralized finance, and self-sovereign identity, this indispensable, forward-thinking book describes the building blocks and often hidden technologies that will be foundational to our cultural and economic progress.

Charting the Internet's Next Economic and Cultural Frontier

Web3

How Blockchain Technology Will Change Money, Business and the World

The Trust Protocol

Descubre Cómo Esta Nueva Tecnología Criptográfica Transformará la Economía Global

La Revolución Blockchain

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. Although many opportunities for the blockchain require a digital currency, Bitcoin is only one application of this great innovation in computer science. The blockchain can hold any legal document, from deeds and marriage licenses to educational degrees and birth certificates. Call it the World Wide Ledger. It enables smart contracts, decentralized autonomous organizations, decentralized government services, and transactions among things. The Internet of Everything needs a Ledger of Everything: the blockchain is a truly open, distributed, global platform that fundamentally changes what we can do online, how we do it, and who can participate.

How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World

Blockchain ermöglicht Peer-to-Peer-Transaktionen ohne jede Zwischenstelle wie eine Bank. Die Teilnehmer bleiben anonym und dennoch sind alle Transaktionen transparent und nachvollziehbar. Somit ist jeder Vorgang fälschungssicher. Dank Blockchain muss man sein Gegenüber nicht mehr kennen und ihm vertrauen – das Vertrauen wird durch das System als Ganzes hergestellt. Und digitale Währungen wie Bitcoins sind nur ein Anwendungsgebiet der Blockchain-Revolution. In der Blockchain kann jedes wichtige Dokument gespeichert werden: Urkunden von Universitäten, Geburts- und Heiratsurkunden und vieles mehr. Die Blockchain ist ein weltweites Register für alles. In diesem Buch zeigen die Autoren, wie sie eine fantastische neue Ära in den Bereichen Finanzen, Business, Gesundheitswesen, Erziehung und darüber hinaus möglich machen wird.

Wie die Technologie hinter Bitcoin nicht nur das Finanzsystem, sondern die ganze Welt verändert

Die Blockchain-Revolution

Het eerste volledige standaardwerk over de technologie die de wereld gaat veranderen. Blockchain is niet alleen de technologie achter de bitcoin, maar ook een revolutionaire methode die op alle denkbare vlakken voor ingrijpende veranderingen zal zorgen: van de economie en de financiële sector tot de service-industrie, de culturele sector en de zorg. In dit grondige werk tonen Don en Alex Tapscott hoe de blockchaintechnologie nieuwe mogelijkheden biedt voor zowel individuen als bedrijven. Deze decentrale methode biedt een manier van samenwerken die compleet transparant en betrouwbaar is. Door middel van het peer-to-peer-principe is blockchain voor iedereen toegankelijk, volledig onafhankelijk van banken en andere instanties. Blockchainrevolutie onthult hoe deze baanbrekende technologie de toekomst van de wereldeconomie de komende jaren ingrijpend zal veranderen.

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