The Truth Machine Michael J. Casey, Paul Vigna
The Truth Machine Michael J. Casey, Paul Vigna From the authors of the fascinating The Age of Cryptocurrency, comes the definitive work on the Internet's next big thing: the blockchain. However,…
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The Truth Machine Michael J. Casey, Paul Vigna
From the authors of the fascinating The Age of Cryptocurrency, comes the definitive work on the Internet's next big thing: the blockchain. However, there is a way past all this-a new kind of operating system with the potential to revolutionise our economy: the blockchain.In The Truth Machine, Michael J. Many of the `legacy systems' once designed to make our lives easier and our economy more efficient are no longer up to the task, big banks have grown more entrenched, privacy exists only until the next hack, and credit card fraud has become a fact of life.
They reveal the empowerment possible when self-interested middlemen give way to the transparency of the blockchain, while highlighting the job losses, assertion of special interests, and threat to social cohesion that will accompany this shift.With a balanced perspective, Casey and Vigna show why we all must care about the path that blockchain technology takes-moving humanity forward, not backward. Casey and Paul Vigna demystify the blockchain and explain why it can restore personal control over our data, assets, and identities, grant billions of excluded people access to the global economy, and shift the balance of power to revive society's faith in itself.