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1. Preface a. Currency, Contracts, and Applications beyond Financial Markets b. Blockchain 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 c. What Is Bitcoin? d. What Is the Blockchain? e. The Connected World and Blockchain: The Fifth Disruptive Computing Paradigm i. M2M/IoT Bitcoin Payment Network to Enable the Machine Economy f. Mainstream Adoption: Trust, Usability, Ease of Use i. Bitcoin Culture: Bitfilm Festival g. Intention, Methodology, and Structure of this Book h. Safari® Books Online i. How to Contact Us j. Acknowledgments 2. 1. Blockchain 1.0: Currency a. Technology Stack: Blockchain, Protocol, Currency b. The Double-Spend and Byzantine Generals’ Computing Problems c. How a Cryptocurrency Works i. eWallet Services and Personal Cryptosecurity ii. Merchant Acceptance of Bitcoin d. Summary: Blockchain 1.0 in Practical Use i. Relation to Fiat Currency ii. Regulatory Status 3. 2. Blockchain 2.0: Contracts a. Financial Services b. Crowdfunding c. Bitcoin Prediction Markets d. Smart Property e. Smart Contracts f. Blockchain 2.0 Protocol Projects g. Wallet Development Projects h. Blockchain Development Platforms and APIs i. Blockchain Ecosystem: Decentralized Storage, Communication, and Computation j. Ethereum: Turing-Complete Virtual Machine i. Counterparty Recreates Ethereum’s Smart Contract Platform k. Dapps, DAOs, DACs, and DASs: Increasingly Autonomous Smart Contracts i. Dapps ii. DAOs and DACs iii. DASs and Self-Bootstrapped Organizations iv. Automatic Markets and Tradenets l. The Blockchain as a Path to Artificial Intelligence 4. 3. Blockchain 3.0: Justice Applications Beyond Currency, Economics, and Markets a. Blockchain Technology Is a New and Highly Effective Model for Organizing Activity i. Extensibility of Blockchain Technology Concepts ii. Fundamental Economic Principles: Discovery, Value Attribution, and Exchange iii. Blockchain Technology Could Be Used in the Administration of All Quanta iv. Blockchain Layer Could Facilitate Big Data’s Predictive Task Automation b. Distributed Censorship-Resistant Organizational Models c. Namecoin: Decentralized Domain Name System i. Challenges and Other Decentralized DNS Services ii. Freedom of Speech/Anti-Censorship Applications: Alexandria and Ostel iii. Decentralized DNS Functionality Beyond Free Speech: Digital Identity d. Digital Identity Verification i. Blockchain Neutrality ii. Digital Divide of Bitcoin e. Digital Art: Blockchain Attestation Services (Notary, Intellectual Property Protection) i. Hashing Plus Timestamping ii. Proof of Existence iii. Virtual Notary, Bitnotar, and Chronobit iv. Monegraph: Online Graphics Protection v. Digital Asset Proof as an Automated Feature vi. Batched Notary Chains as a Class of Blockchain Infrastructure vii. Personal Thinking Blockchains f. Blockchain Government i. Decentralized Governance Services ii. PrecedentCoin: Blockchain Dispute Resolution iii. Liquid Democracy and Random-Sample Elections iv. Random-Sample Elections v. Futarchy: Two-Step Democracy with Voting + Prediction Markets vi. Societal Maturity Impact of Blockchain Governance 5. 4. Blockchain 3.0: Efficiency and Coordination Applications Beyond Currency, Economics, and Markets a. Blockchain Science: Gridcoin, Foldingcoin i. Community Supercomputing ii. Global Public Health: Bitcoin for Contagious Disease Relief iii. Charity Donations and the Blockchain—Sean’s Outpost b. Blockchain Genomics i. Blockchain Genomics 2.0: Industrialized All-Human-Scale Sequencing Solution ii. Blockchain Technology as a Universal Order-of-Magnitude Progress Model iii. Genomecoin, GenomicResearchcoin c. Blockchain Health i. Healthcoin ii. EMRs on the Blockchain: Personal Health Record Storage iii. Blockchain Health Research Commons iv. Blockchain Health Notary v. Doctor Vendor RFP Services and Assurance Contracts vi. Virus Bank, Seed Vault Backup d. Blockchain Learning: Bitcoin MOOCs and Smart Contract Literacy i. Learncoin ii. Learning Contract Exchanges e. Blockchain Academic Publishing: Journalcoin f. The Blockchain Is Not for Every Situation g. Centralization-Decentralization Tension and Equilibrium 6. 5. Advanced Concepts a. Terminology and Concepts b. Currency, Token, Tokenizing i. Communitycoin: Hayek’s Private Currencies Vie for Attention ii. Campuscoin iii. Coin Drops as a Strategy for Public Adoption iv. Currency: New Meanings c. Currency Multiplicity: Monetary and Nonmonetary Currencies d. Demurrage Currencies: Potentially Incitory and Redistributable i. Extensibility of Demurrage Concept and Features 7. 6. Limitations a. Technical Challenges b. Business Model Challenges c. Scandals and Public Perception d. Government Regulation e. Privacy Challenges for Personal Records f. Overall: Decentralization Trends Likely to Persist 8. 7. Conclusion a. The Blockchain Is an Information Technology i. Blockchain AI: Consensus as the Mechanism to Foster “Friendly” AI ii. Large Possibility Space for Intelligence iii. Only Friendly AIs Are Able to Get Their Transactions Executed iv. Smart Contract Advocates on Behalf of Digital Intelligence v. Blockchain Consensus Increases the Information Resolution of the Universe 9. A. Cryptocurrency Basics a. Public/Private-Key Cryptography 101 10. B. Ledra Capital Mega Master Blockchain List 11. Endnotes and References 12. Index Blockchain Blueprint for a New Economy Melanie Swan Blockchain by Melanie Swan Copyright © 2015 Melanie Swan. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Published by O’Reilly Media, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472. O’Reilly books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. Online editions are also available for most titles (http://safaribooksonline.com). For more information, contact our corporate/institutional sales department: 800-998-9938 or