Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- A Personal Preface -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1: What is the Blockchain? -- Visiting Satoshi's Paper -- The Web, All Over Again -- One or Several Blockchains? -- Introduction to Blockchain Applications -- The Blockchain's Narrative is Strong -- A Meta Technology -- Software, Game Theory and Cryptography -- The Database vs. The Ledger -- Looking Back So We Can Look Forward -- Unpacking the Blockchain -- State Transitions and State Machines- What Are They? -- The Consensus Algorithms -- Key Ideas from Chapter One -- Notes -- 2: How Blockchain Trust Infiltrates -- A New Trust Layer -- Decentralization of Trust-What Does it Mean? -- How Airbnb Designed Trust for Strangers -- A Spectrum of Trust Services Based on Proofs -- The Blockchain Landscape -- Benefits and Indirect Benefits -- Explaining Some Basic Functions -- What Does a Trusted Blockchain Enable? -- Identity Ownerships &amp -- Representation -- Decentralized Data Security -- Anonymity &amp -- Untraceable Communication -- Blockchain as Cloud -- Getting to Millions of Blockchains -- Key Ideas from Chapter Two -- Notes -- 3: Obstacles, Challenges, &amp -- Mental Blocks -- Attacking the Blockchain with a Framework Approach -- Technical Challenges -- Market/Business Challenges -- Legal /Regulatory Barriers -- Behavioral/Educational Challenges -- Key Ideas from Chapter Three -- Notes -- 4: Blockchain in Financial Services -- Attacked by the Internet and Fintech -- Why Can't There be a Global Bank? -- Banks as Backends -- Blockchain Inside Regulations Versus Permissionless Innovation -- Landscape of Blockchain Companies in Financial Services -- Blockchain Applications in Financial Services -- Strategic Questions for Financial Services -- Key Ideas from Chapter Four -- Notes -- 5: Lighthouse Industries &amp.

New Intermediaries -- The New Intermediaries -- Lighthouse Industries -- Key Ideas from Chapter Five -- Notes -- 6: Implementing Blockchain Technology -- Internal Strategies for Tackling the Blockchain -- The Blockchain Czar -- Organizational Models -- A Blockchain Functional Architecture -- Core &amp -- Protocol -- Blockchain Software Development -- Writing Decentralized Applications -- 12 Features of a Blockchain Platform -- Decision-Making Framework -- Key Ideas from Chapter Six -- Notes -- 7: Decentralization as the Way Forward -- What Happened to the Decentralized Internet? -- It's not Easy Being Decentralized -- What Will Decentralization Look Like -- The Crypto Economy -- A New Flow of Value -- How Technology Permeates -- Peering Into 2025 -- Key Ideas from Chapter Seven -- Notes -- Epilogue -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Additional Resources -- About the Author -- EULA.

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