Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy

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 Re-

creates 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