The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything

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“Views differ on bitcoin, however few doubt the transformative potential of Blockchain know-how. The Fact Machine is the most effective e book thus far on what has occurred and what might come alongside. It calls for the eye of anybody involved with our financial future.” (Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot College Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard, former Treasury Secretary)

From Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna, the authors of The Age of Cryptocurrency, comes the definitive audiobook on the Web’s Subsequent Large Factor: The Blockchain.

Large banks have grown greater and extra entrenched. Privateness exists solely till the following hack. Bank card fraud is a reality of life. Lots of the “legacy programs” as soon as designed to make our lives simpler and our financial system extra environment friendly are not as much as the duty. But there’s a well beyond all this – a brand new sort of working system with the potential to revolutionize huge swaths of our financial system: the blockchain.

In The Fact Machine, Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna demystify the blockchain and clarify why it could actually restore private management over our knowledge, belongings, and identities; grant billions of excluded individuals entry to the worldwide financial system; and shift the steadiness of energy to revive society’s religion in itself. They reveal the disruption it guarantees for industries together with finance, tech, authorized, and transport. Casey and Vigna expose the problem of changing trusted (and not-so-trusted) establishments on which we’ve relied for hundreds of years with a radical mannequin that bypasses them.

The Fact Machine reveals the empowerment potential when self-interested middlemen give strategy to the transparency of the blockchain, whereas highlighting the job losses, assertion of particular pursuits, and risk to social cohesion that can accompany this shift. With the identical balanced perspective they delivered to The Age of Cryptocurrency, Casey and Vigna present why listeners should care concerning the path that blockchain know-how takes – shifting humanity ahead, not backward.