Blockchain
Blueprint for a New Economy
$71.37
- Paperback
152 pages
- Release Date
24 February 2015
Summary
Bitcoin is starting to come into its own as a digital currency, but the blockchain technology behind it could prove to be much more significant. This book takes you beyond the currency (Blockchain 1.0) and smart contracts (Blockchain 2.0) to demonstrate how the blockchain is in position to become the fifth disruptive computing paradigm after mainframes, PCs, the Internet, and mobile/social networking.
Author Melanie Swan, Founder of the Institute for Blockchain Studies, explains that…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781491920497 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1491920491 |
| Author: | Melanie Swa |
| Publisher: | O'Reilly Media |
| Imprint: | O'Reilly Media |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 152 |
| Release Date: | 24 February 2015 |
| Weight: | 268g |
| Dimensions: | 9mm x 180mm x 240mm |
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Melanie Swa
Melanie Swan is the Founder of the Institute for Blockchain Studies and a Contemporary Philosophy MA candidate at Kingston University London and Universite Paris VIII. She has a traditional markets background with an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and work experience at Fidelity and JP Morgan. She has a new markets background as an entrepreneur and advisor to startups GroupPurchase and Prosper, and developed virtual world digital asset valuation and accounting principles for Deloitte. She was involved in the early stages of the Quantified Self movement, and founded DIYgenomics in 2010, an organization that pioneered the crowdsourced health research study. She is an instructor at Singularity University, an Affiliate Scholar at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, and a contributor to the Edge’s Annual Essay Question.
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