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The definitive pioneering blueprint covering the what, why and how of the blockchain. Blockchains are new technology layers that rewire the Internet and threaten to side-step older legacy constructs and centrally served businesses. At its core, a blockchain injects trust into the network, cutting off some intermediaries from serving that function and creatively disrupting how they operate. Metaphorically, blockchains are the ultimate non-stop computers. Once launched, they never go down, and offer an incredible amount of resiliency, making them dependable and attractive for running a new generation of decentralized services and software applications. The Business Blockchain charts new territ...
getAbstract Summary: Get the key points from this book in less than 10 minutes.Technologist William Mougayar thinks blockchain is the tech world's next killer app. In this study of blockchain's potential, he outlines a future in which blockchain will seamlessly underlie banking relationships, store medical records and issue passports, all through a secure process. Mougayar acknowledges that blockchain has garnered ample hype, and details the obstacles stalling a blockchain world. Among them: Software developers have yet to embrace blockchain, investors seem underwhelmed and regulators remain puzzled. Despite those hurdles, Mougayar argues that blockchain holds a position similar to the Inter...
In A Critical Appraisal of Initial Coin Offerings: Lifting the “Digital Token’s Veil”, Dominika Nestarcova examines the regulatory treatment of initial coin offerings (‘ICOs’), a novel form of raising capital, where start-up companies issue blockchain-based assets (‘digital tokens’) to the public in return for a payment. The ICO model promises to utilize blockchain technology to enforce financial contracting via the underlying code, thereby substituting the traditional securities regulation. Dominika Nestarcova provides an in-depth analysis of this promise by examining the nature of digital tokens, the process, underlying benefits and risks to the model and the current state of the ICO regulation with an aim to uncover how the self-regulatory promise offered by ICOs lives up the expectations.
This book provides an introduction to the state of the art in financial technology (FinTech) and the current applications of FinTech in digital banking. It is a comprehensive guide to the various technologies, products, processes, and business models integral to the FinTech environment. Covering key definitions and characteristics, models and best practice, as well as presenting relevant case studies related to FinTech and e-Business, this book helps build a theoretical framework for future discussion.
Distributed Computing to Blockchain: Architecture, Technology, and Applications provides researchers, computer scientists, and data scientists with a comprehensive and applied reference covering the evolution of distributed systems computing into blockchain and associated systems. Divided into three major sections, the book explores the basic topics in the blockchain space extending from distributed systems architecture, distributed ledger, decentralized web to introductory aspects of cryptoeconomics (cryptography and economics) of decentralized applications. The book further explores advanced concepts such as smart contracts; distributed token mining, initial coin offerings; proof of work; ...
Designed to provide an insight into the Blockchain in depth concept DESCRIPTION Insightful & Conceptual coverage of Internet & Blockchain evolution, Bitcoin, Ethereal, Hyper-ledger, R3 Cora, Auxledger, GDPR, Cybersecurity, Consensus, Mechanisms, Enterprise applications, Global Developments, BAAS platforms, Disruptions across various countries, functional areas along with solution architectures. KEY FEATURES Book provide the in depth and up to date information aboutÊ the technology.Ê Learn about Blockchain 1.0 to Blockchain 4.0 To Trace and link the DNA of Blockchain paradigm to real world entities. To discuss comprehensively the relation of Blockchain to the cutting edge technologies today...
We are living in the middle of a Fourth Industrial Revolution, with new technology leading to dramatic shifts in everything from manufacturing to supply chain logistics. In a lively, developing field of academic, procurement is often neglected. Despite this, procurement plays a vital role, connecting the organization with its ecosystem. At a time of change and economic crisis, a new business model is called for, which this book aims to define. Based on the applications of Industry 4.0 concepts to procurement, this book describes Procurement 4.0 as a method and a set of tools, helping businesses to improve the value of their products, reduce waste, become more flexible, and address the business needs of the future. It will appeal to academics in the area, as well as practitioners.
If you want to try CRYPTOCURRENCY, this bооk will help you understand the FUNDAMENTALS OF CRYPTOCURRENCY. It аlѕо dіѕсuѕѕеѕ thе vаrіоuѕ рrоs аnd cons оf Cryptocurrency and the Banking Industry and ѕhоwѕ you how уоu саn put thе knоwlеdgе to good use. It aims аt dеѕсrіbіng hоw cryptocurrency wоrkѕ аnd undеrѕtаndіng the different tуреѕ оf cryptocurrency. It has taken thе рublіс a while to migrate frоm dіgіtаl mоnеу (trаnѕfеrrіng digital dollars оnlіnе) to using сrурtосurrеnсу thаt is, mоnеу сrеаtеd uѕіng сrурtоgrарhу. However, thаt mіgrаtіоn is now occurring and оftеn lеаdѕ tо a dіѕсuѕѕ...
Technology is changing money: it has been transformed from physical objects to intangible information. With the arrival of smart cards, mobile phones and Bitcoin it has become easier than ever to create new forms of money. Crucially, money is also inextricably connected with our identities. Your card or phone is a security device that can identify you – and link information about you to your money. To see where these developments might be taking us, David Birch looks back over the history of money, spanning thousands of years. He sees in the past, both recent and ancient, evidence for several possible futures. Looking further back to a world before cash and central banks, there were multip...
This volume constitutes selected papers from the Second International Conference on Information Systems and Design, ICID 2021, held as virtual event in September 2021. The 24 full papers and 4 short papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on digital transformation of enterprises based on analysis and management tools: practical-focused research; methodological support of analysis and management tools: theoretical-focused research; young scientists research in the areas of enterprise digitalization.