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  • The Blockchain and the Future of Everything
  • Written by: Michael J Casey, Paul Vigna
  • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
  • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (55 ratings)

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Written by: Michael J Casey, Paul Vigna
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
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"Views differ on bitcoin, but few doubt the transformative potential of Blockchain technology. The Truth Machine is the best book so far on what has happened and what may come along. It demands the attention of anyone concerned with our economic future." (Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University 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 Internet’s Next Big Thing: The Blockchain.   

Big banks have grown bigger and more entrenched. Privacy exists only until the next hack. Credit card fraud is a fact of life. Many of the “legacy systems” once designed to make our lives easier and our economy more efficient are no longer up to the task. Yet there is a way past all this - a new kind of operating system with the potential to revolutionize vast swaths of our economy: the blockchain. 

In The Truth Machine, Michael J. 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. They reveal the disruption it promises for industries including finance, tech, legal, and shipping. Casey and Vigna expose the challenge of replacing trusted (and not-so-trusted) institutions on which we’ve relied for centuries with a radical model that bypasses them.  

The Truth Machine reveals 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 the same balanced perspective they brought to The Age of Cryptocurrency, Casey and Vigna show why listeners must care about the path that blockchain technology takes - moving humanity forward, not backward.  

©2018 Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey (P)2018 Macmillan Audio

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The best book on blockchain use cases so far...

This book does a great job of explaining the revolutionary potential of blockchain technology. Journalists using narrative based story telling to makes complex ideas easy to understand. This is the book I share with friends who I think would be interested in learning about how blockchain tech could change the world beyond just speculating on cryptocurrency market prices.

Pro tip: If you read this and your interested in what's possible as the result of decentralization check out Holochain. I'm not talking about buying the coin, I mean consider building a decentralized app or selling some of your processing power for decentralized web hosting. It's scalable, based on biomimicry principles and far more energy efficient than any current blockchain project. It's actually even more revolutionary than blockchain.

This book will open the door to what is possible as the result of structural changes. You will then go down the rabbit whole of exploring many projects and a lot of them are scams so beware. Trying to save you some time. ;)

Regardless enjoy the book. A better world is possible. Some of the pieces of the puzzle are here.

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Must Read for all Who's Life is Effected by Tech..

...ie, everyone.

Lays out the blockchain for what it is, could be, should be and might be. The only fault I found was that the authors continues petty swipes at current political institutions and figures ultimately weaken it's arguments and will, sadly date the message.

...it's a relevant message, ignore the authors arrogance and you should enjoy the read!

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