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 Reality Machine is the most effective guide to date 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 work on the Web’s Subsequent Large Factor: The Blockchain.

Large banks have grown larger and extra entrenched. Privateness exists solely till the subsequent 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 economic 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 economic system: the blockchain.

In The Reality Machine, Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna demystify the blockchain and clarify why it will possibly restore private management over our knowledge, belongings, and identities; grant billions of excluded individuals entry to the worldwide economic system; and shift the stability of energy to revive society’s religion in itself. They reveal the disruption it guarantees for industries together with finance, tech, authorized, and delivery.

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 Reality Machine reveals the empowerment attainable when self-interested middlemen give option 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 all of us should care in regards to the path that blockchain know-how takes―shifting humanity ahead, not backward.

Writer ‏ : ‎ Picador; Reprint version (March 5, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250304172
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250304179
Merchandise Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.33 x 0.96 x 8.16 inches