The transition from exchanging content online to exchanging value online changes everything. Read The Blockchain Economy to learn how to prosper in this new economy.
A print book is out of date as soon as it “goes to press”. We edit and update The Blockchain Economy as information changes. It is cross between a digital book and online courseware.
The Blockchain Economy Table Of Contents
The book is divided into 5 parts – 1) Introduction 2) Infrastructure 3) Existing Markets 4) Investing 5) Bitcoin
Introduction:
Part 1/Chapter 1 Who should read the Blockchain Economy book
Part 1/Chapter 2 Blockchain is Internet Version 3
Part 1/Chapter 3 Some key words you will need to understand to read this book
Part 1/Chapter 4 The Creative Destruction 7 Act Play
Infrastructure:
Part 2/Chapter 1 The 3 layer stack
Part 2/Chapter 2 Layer 3: Creating Blockchain Finance Market Infrastructure at Light Speed.
Part 2/Chapter 3 Layer 2 Blockchain Middleware is as as free and as valuable as air.
Part 2/Chapter 4 Protocol Layer 1 & The Bitcoin Maximalist Debate.
Part 2/Chapter 6 Real Time Settlement is the big market innovation powering Blockchain Finance
Part 2/Chapter 7 Digital Cooperatives may become the Default Corporate Structure in the Blockchain Economy
Part 2/Chapter 8 Why The blockchain Economy Wont be Financed by Ye Olde Artisanal VC Funds
Part 2/Chapter 10 Multi Layer Blockchain scaling solutions.
Part 2/Chapter 11 The Past Present & Future Of Bitcoin Mining
Part 2/Chapter 12 Some Governments Want To Shut Down Bitcoin But They Don’t Know How
Part 2/Chapter 15 Digital Identity Is The Key To The Blockchain Economy
Part 2/Chapter 16 TOR and other threats to privacy-centric Altcoins
Part 2/Chapter 17 Proof Of Stake Is More Like Financial Bonds Than Proof Of Work Mining
Part 3 = How The Blockchain Economy Will Impact Existing Markets
Part 3/Chapter 1 Watch Blockchains Creative Destruction 7 Act Play
Part 3/Chapter 2 Blockchain Bits Of Destruction Hit Wall Street
Part 3/Chapter 3 Blockchain may finally disrupt payments from Micropayments to Credit Cards to SWIFT
Part 3/Chapter 4 Blockchain May Disrupt Insurance Before Banking
Part 3/Chapter 6 Blocks Of Disruption Hit The Media Business As Privacy Finally Hits The Front Page
Part 3/Chapter 7 Blocks Of Destruction Hit The Supply Chain Business
Part 3/Chapter 8 How Blockchain Smart Contracts will impact the legal business.
Part 3/Chapter 9 Blockchain Second Killer App Maybe In The Sharing Economy
Part 3/Chapter 10 Cannabis And Blockchain Are Two Legally Grey Area Markets Getting Together
Part 3/Chapter 12 11 other established markets that are facing Blockchain disruption.
Part 3/Chapter 14 Try to ignore the Blockchain Hype Coaster
Part 4 Investing
Part 4/Chapter 1 Investing In The Blockchain Economy
Part 4/Chapter 2 Investing in Utility Tokens.
Part 4/Chapter 3 Investing in Early Stage Equity via Security Tokens (fka Venture Capital).
Part 4/Chapter 4 Investing in Asset Backed Tokens.
Part 4/Chapter 5 Investing in Payment Tokens and Stablecoins (aka new currencies).
Part 5 Bitcoin
We devote a number of Chapters to the one cryptocurrency that started all this.
Part 5/Chapter 1 Why bitcoin is surprisingly valuable and stable as a chair with only one leg
Part 5/Chapter 2 Lightning Network Is The Bitcoin Story That Matters In 2019.
The book concludes with a chapter focussed on the entrepreneur, who is the lead actor in the Creative Destruction 7 Act Play: