Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy

tradenets, Automatic Markets and

Tradenets

transaction fees, Summary:

Blockchain 1.0 in Practical Use

Tribecoin, Coin Drops as a Strategy

for Public Adoption

trustless lending, Smart Property

Truthcoin, Futarchy: Two-Step

Democracy with Voting + Prediction

Markets

Turing completeness, Ethereum:

Turing-Complete Virtual Machine

Twister, Dapps

Twitter, Monegraph: Online Graphics

Protection

U

Uber, Government Regulation

unbanked/underbanked markets,

Blockchain Neutrality

usability issues, Technical Challenges

V

value chain composition, How a

Cryptocurrency Works

versioning issues, Technical

Challenges

Virtual Notary, Virtual Notary,

Bitnotar, and Chronobit

voting and prediction, Futarchy: Two-

Step Democracy with Voting +

Prediction Markets-Futarchy: Two-

Step Democracy with Voting +

Prediction Markets

W

wallet APIs, Blockchain Development

Platforms and APIs

wallet companies, Wallet

Development Projects

wallet software, How a

Cryptocurrency Works

wasted resources, Technical

Challenges

Wayback Machine, Blockchain

Ecosystem: Decentralized Storage,

Communication, and Computation

Wedbush Securities, Financial

Services

Whatevercoin, Terminology and

Concepts

WikiLeaks, Distributed Censorship-

Resistant Organizational Models

Wikinomics, Community

Supercomputing

World Citizen project, Decentralized

Governance Services

X

Xapo, eWallet Services and Personal

Cryptosecurity

Z

Zennet Supercomputer, Community

Supercomputing

Zooko's Triangle, Decentralized DNS

Functionality Beyond Free Speech:

Digital Identity

About the Author

Melanie Swan is the Founder of the

Institute for Blockchain Studies and a

Contemporary Philosophy MA candidate

at Kingston University London and

Université 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.

Colophon

The animal on the cover of Blockchain

is a Hungarian grey bull, a breed of

domestic bull once thought to have been

brought into central Europe from beyond

the Carpathian mountains during the 9th-

century beginnings of the Hungarian

conquest. It is now known only that the

breed existed in great numbers by the

beginning of the 15th century, when it

was already being exported in large

quantities to other cities in Europe.

The toughness and adaptability of the

Hungarian grey breed have made its

oxen valuable as draft animals for

centuries. It survives well in conditions

of great freedom and so is suited to

grazing on ample pasture lands. It

reportedly acclimates well to a wide

range of climates, and Hungarian grey

heifers are reputed to be less likely to

experience dystocia, or calving

difficulty.

Elimination of pastures in the late 19th

and early 20th centuries represented the

first in a series of threats to the

Hungarian grey’s existence. Farm

mechanization in the same period

relaxed demand for the breed’s abilities

as a draft animal, and attempts to

upgrade the Hungarian grey by crosses

with other central European cattle

further reduced the number in existence.

Since a 1962 count put the number of