An introduction to “Blockchain, blueprint for a new economy” and author Melanie Swan
- Overview Editorial
- Although Melanie’s book was criticized by the technical side she appears to be a wide ranging technological futurist philosopher attempting to break in and provide voice to many edge technologies beyond just cybercurrency.
- The world has room and need for the kind of voice that Melanie provides which is a contribution into the conversation of technology from the sociological aspect of the technology tapestry.
- Author
- Melanie Swan, Founder of the Institute for Blockchain Studies
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- Reviews
- GoodReads
- There's some good overview and some good ideas in this book, but much of it is just a catalog of existing projects, and much of the rest is speculation (some of it outlandish). The book is brought back to Earth in the end with a sober look at the problems that Bitcoin faces ... but it's ultimately just another list.
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- This is not a technical book on Blockchain or Bitcoin, but it is an excellent summary of the current technology supporting cryptocurrencies and an inspiring collection of ideas for how Blockchain could support a multiplicity of applications, in both the short term and the long run.
- Copiously sourced with an extensive index. Puny appendices on basic crypto, but again that's not the point of this book; for that see Satoshi white papers and relevant RFCs.
- Book
- O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (February 8, 2015)
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