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Blockchain Revolution (updated)

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by Don Tapscott

51. Ibid.

  52. Interview with Jerry Brito, June 29, 2015.

  53. Interview with Steve Beauregard, April 30, 2015.

  54. Interview with Jerry Brito, June 29, 2015.

  55. Don Tapscott and Lynne St. Amour, “The Remarkable Internet Governance Network—Part I,” Global Solution Networks Program, Martin Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto, 2014.

  56. E-mail correspondence with Vint Cerf, June 12, 2015.

  57. www.w3.org/Payments/.

  58. www.intgovforum.org/cms/wks2015/index.php/proposal/view_public/239.

  59. www.internetsociety.org/inet-bangkok/speakers/mr-pindar-wong.

  60. Adam Killick, “Knowledge Networks,” Global Solution Networks Program, Martin Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto, 2014.

  61. Interview with Jerry Brito, June 29, 2015.

  62. Interview with Tyler Winklevoss, June 9, 2015.

  63. Interview with Joichi Ito, August 24, 2015.

  64. http://coala.global/?page_id=13396.

  65. www.digitalchamber.org/.

  66. https://blog.coinbase.com/2014/10/13/welcome-john-collins-to-coinbase/.

  67. http://www.digitalchamber.org/assets/press-release---g7---for-website.pdf.

  68. Anthony Williams, “Platforms for Global Problem Solving,” Global Solution Networks Program, Martin Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto 2013.

  69. Interview with Brian Forde, June 26, 2015.

  70. Interview with Gavin Andresen, June 8, 2015.

  71. www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GAC15_Technological_Tipping_Points_report_2015.pdf, 7.

  72. Interview with Constance Choi, April 10, 2015.

  73. The digital revolution has moved on to “the second half of the chessboard”—a clever phrase coined by the American inventor and author Ray Kurzweil. He tells a story of the emperor of China being so delighted with the game of chess that he offered the game’s inventor any reward he desired. The inventor asked for rice. “I would like one grain of rice on the first square of the chessboard, two grains of rice on the second square, four grains of rice on the third square, and so on, all the way to the last square,” he said. Thinking this would add up to a couple bags of rice, the emperor happily agreed. He was misguided. While small at the outset, the amount of rice escalates to more than two billion grains halfway through the chessboard. The final square would require nine billion billion grains of rice—enough to cover all of Earth.

  74. E-mail interview with Timothy Draper, August 3, 2015.

  75. Interview with Hernando de Soto, November 27, 2015.

  INDEX

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  Abra, 20, 186–88, 325n

  Academic institutions

  as players in blockchain ecosystem, 286

  role in culture, 246–49

  Accenture, 69, 70

  Accessibility, 256–57

  Accountability, 10, 30, 108–9, 303

  in foreign aid, 20–21, 190–91

  in government, 23, 199, 202, 207–9, 309

  in microfinance, 192

  Accounting, 63, 64, 73–79

  double-entry, 7, 74, 75, 310

  triple-entry, 77, 78–79, 180

  World Wide Ledger, 6–8, 75–77, 142

  Accounting fraud, 74, 76

  AccountingWEB, 74

  Adams, Scott, 106

  Advocacy networks, 302–3

  Agency costs, 107

  Agency risk, 60

  Agenda, for next digital age, 307–9

  Aggregating economy, 17–18, 134–35, 164–65

  Agora Voting, 218–19

  Agriculture, 138–39, 157–58

  Airbnb, 17, 18, 115–17, 134, 135, 270

  Allaire, Jeremy, 71–72, 75–76

  Allianz, 156

  Allied Control, 261

  Altcoins, 60, 257

  Amazon, 13, 72–73, 118, 122, 123

  American Association of Independent Music, 230

  American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), 229

  Andreessen, Marc, 5, 9, 80, 311

  Andreessen Horowitz, 178–79, 284

  Andresen, Gavin, 51, 104, 285, 305

  implementation challenges, 257, 260, 262, 271–72

  Angaritis, Dino Mark, 31–32, 115, 131, 153

  Animating objects, 22, 155, 156–61

  Anti–money laundering/know your customer (AML/KYC), 42, 44, 302

  Antonopoulos, Andreas, 70, 125, 128, 225, 233, 255

  design principles, 40, 47–48

  digital identity, 15, 264–65

  re-architecting the firm, 86, 96, 97, 98, 102

  AOL, 255

  Apple, 13, 118, 150, 161, 229, 235

  Application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), 261

  Arab Spring, 200

  Ariely, Dan, 279

  Art (artists), 21, 239–43

  buying through bitcoin blockchain, 240–42

  ownership rights, 45–49, 132–33

  profile of next-gen patron, 242–43

  Artificial intelligence (AI), 91, 123, 265, 274

  Artist-centric music model, 231–35

  Artists and repertoire (A&R), 238–39

  Artlery, 239–43

  Ascribe, 132–33, 243

  Asset ownership, 19–20, 193–95

  Asymmetric cryptography, 39–40

  Athey, Susan, 111

  Attention markets, 140–41

  Attestation, in financial services, 56, 57, 58

  Auction/dynamic pricing mechanisms, 234

  Audits, 6–7, 63, 75–77, 78

  Augur, 82, 83, 84–85, 181, 220, 224

  Australian outback, power poles, 145, 146–47

  Authenticating identity and value, in financial services, 61, 64

  Automated Clearing House (ACH), 59, 293

  Automated subsidiary rights management, 234

  Autonomous agents, 22, 120, 121, 122–25, 126, 321–22n

  Autonomous vehicles, 156–57, 165–67

  Back, Adam, 34, 41

  “Backdoor access,” 244

  Background checks, 176

  bAirbnb, 115–17

  Balanc3, 76, 178

  Bandcamp, 235

  Bank of Canada, 9, 294, 296

  Bank of England, 9, 294

  Bankruptcy laws, 174

  Banks. See also Central banks; Financial services

  unbanked and underbanked, 170–72, 175–78

  Barclays, 68–69, 75

  Barclays Accelerator, 68–69

  Barhydt, Bill, 187–88

  Beauregard, Steve, 297

  Behavioral change, 257

  Bengloff, Rich, 230

  Benkler, Yochai, 94, 107, 277

  new business models, 129–30, 134, 135, 139

  Bernanke, Ben, 294

  Berners-Lee, Tim, 281

  Big Brother, 244, 274–75

  Big data, 44, 151, 225

  Big Seven, 128–42

  Birch, David, 177

  Bitcoin, 5–10, 278–79

  buying art through blockchain, 240–43

  design principles. See Design principles

  implementation challenges. See Implementation challenges

  the players, 283–89

  Bitcoin Foundation, 305

  Bitcoin Lightning Network, 59, 288

  Bitcoin Magazine, 279

  Bitcoin Weekly, 279

  Bitcoin XT, 271–72

  BitFury, 261

  BitGo, 287, 303

  BitLicense, 286, 291

  BitMoby, 50–51

  BitPay, 48, 72, 246, 260, 263, 266

  BitTorrent, 34, 119, 246

  Black, Doug, 292–93

  BlackBerry, 150

  Black box marketing, 97

  Black box of identity, 14–16

  Blockapedia, 13
1, 224

  Blockchain

  distributed ledger technology, 6–8, 18

  governance network, 298–308

  how it works, 6–8

  implementation challenges. See Implementation challenges

  plan for prosperity, 17–23

  players in ecosystem, 283–89

  promise and peril of, 24–26

  rational exuberance for, 8–10

  seven design principles. See Design principles

  Blockchain Alliance, 303–4

  Blockchain cooperatives, 134–35

  Blockchain IPOs, 82–84, 127, 180, 181

  Blockchain judiciary, 220–21

  Blockchain makers, 138–39

  Blockchain voting, 215–17

  Blockcom, 90, 127

  Blocking Web sites, 244–45

  Blockstream, 28, 38, 65–66

  Block time, 255–57

  Bootstrapping, 34

  Boring, Perianne, 208, 287, 288

  Boundary changes, 92–109

  Boundary decisions, 109–14

  Bouvier, Pascal, 269

  Brand, Stewart, 129

  Bretton Woods system, 281, 295–96, 298

  Brito, Jerry, 263, 264, 286, 287, 291, 297, 301

  Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), 229

  Brody, Paul, 33

  Brown, John Seely, 94

  Brown, Richard Gendal, 69

  BTCjam, 81

  Building management, in IoTs, 159–60

  Business building, components of, 179–80

  Business models, 115–44, 168

  autonomous agents, 122–25

  bAirbnb vs. Airbnb, 115–17

  Big Seven, 128–42

  distributed applications, 117–22

  distributed autonomous enterprises, 126–28

  hacking your future, 142–44

  Buterin, Vitalik, 87–88, 262, 278–80

  autonomous agents, 123, 125

  consensus mechanisms, 31

  futarchy, 220

  re-architecting the firm, 18, 87–88, 96, 100–101

  Buzzcar, 137

  Byrne, David, 227

  Byrne, Patrick, 83

  Byzantine Generals’ Problem, 241

  Cabell, James Branch, 277

  California Public Employees’ Retirement System, 77

  Campus microgrids, 148

  “Canonical persona,” 16, 140

  Cap-and-trade system, 222–23

  Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Piketty), 173, 175

  Carlyle, James, 69

  Cars, 137, 164–67, 165–67

  Cavoukian, Ann, 27, 28, 41, 42, 51–52, 275

  CBW Bank, 73

  Ceglowski, Maciej, 254, 275

  Central banks (banking), 9, 31, 57, 286–87, 293–96, 309

  Cerf, Vint, 274, 281, 299

  Chain (company), 67–68

  Chamber of Digital Commerce, 208, 287, 288, 302, 303

  Change.org, 304

  Chase, Robin, 137

  Chaum, David, 4, 219

  Chesky, Brian, 135

  China, 13, 56, 174, 243–45, 264, 266–67, 272

  Choi, Constance, 288, 307

  Christie, Chris, 98

  Circle, 83, 284

  Circle Internet Financial, 71–72

  Cisco Quad, 139

  Civil Justice Council, U.K., 221

  Clark, David, 281

  Clark, Jeremy, 215

  Climate change, 149, 221–23

  Cloud computing, 118, 122

  Coalition for Automated Legal Applications (COALA), 301–2, 303

  Coase, Ronald, 74, 92–93, 100, 105, 121, 142, 319n

  Cohen, Bram, 119, 262

  Coinbase, 44, 83–84, 284, 302

  Coin Center, 286, 287, 302, 303

  CoinPip, 217

  Collaboration, 139–42

  Collins, John, 302

  Colu, 238

  CommitCoin, 215

  “Commons-based peer production,” 129

  Competitive advantage, 64, 66, 110–11, 140

  Complex instruction set computer (CISC), 260–61

  CompuServe, 118

  Computer viruses, 122, 123

  Computing, evolution of, 150–52

  Conflict adjudication, 100, 105, 219, 221

  Conflicts of interest, 100, 125

  Consensus mechanisms, 30–33, 36–37, 95, 98, 262, 266, 305

  Consensus Systems (ConsenSys), 15, 87–92, 99, 101, 112–14, 130

  Consideration, 10, 30

  Conspiracy theories, 213

  Content ID, 235

  Contract breaches, 104, 258

  Contracting costs, 99–101

  Contracts. See Smart contracts

  Coordination costs, 92, 93, 105–7, 121, 142, 166

  Copyright, 45–49, 132–33, 228–31, 234, 236, 237–38

  Core competencies, 110–12

  Corporate boundaries

  changing, 92–109

  determining, 109–14

  Corporate governance, in financial services, 73–79

  Corporations, reconfiguring as engine of capitalism, 21–22. See also New business models; Re-architecting the firm

  Corruption, 19, 20–21, 50, 188–89, 193–94, 195–96

  Counterparty risk, 59

  Coursera, 248–49

  Creative industries. See Art; Music

  Credit cards, 4, 36, 42–43, 62, 79

  Credit scores, 62, 79–82, 177

  Criminal uses, 4, 9, 128, 275–76, 303

  CrisisCommons, 189

  Crowdfunding, 82–83, 128, 181, 245–46

  CrowdJury, 220–21

  Cryptocurrencies, 5, 9–10

  Cryptoeconomics, 119, 321n

  Culture, 21, 226–50. See also Art; Music

  on the blockchain, 249–50

  privacy, free speech and free press, 243–46

  role of education, 246–49

  Cuomo, Andrew, 289

  Cyberclones, 42

  Data analytics, 233–34

  Data breaches, 39, 43, 92, 118, 151–52

  Data mining, 36

  David, Paul, 57

  Decentralization, 91–92, 106–7, 117–18, 162–63, 293–96

  Declaration of Independence, 19

  Declaration of Interdependence, 308–9

  Deegan, Patrick, 81

  De Filippi, Primavera, 258, 264, 265, 288

  Delegative democracy, 218–19

  Deliberative polling, 223

  Delivery networks, 301–2

  Deloitte, 68, 76–77, 78

  Democracy, 9, 13, 23. See also Governments; Voting

  alternative models of politics and justice, 218–21

  on the blockchain, 214–15

  engaging citizens to solve big problems, 221–23

  second era of, 211–15

  tools of twenty-first-century, 223–25

  Democratized entrepreneurship, 179–81

  DEMOS, 215–16

  Desertification, 149–50

  Design principles, 29–52

  distributed power, 33–35

  in government, 201–3

  inclusion, 49–51

  networked integrity, 30–33

  privacy, 41–56

  rights preserved, 45–49

  security, 39–41

  value as incentive, 35–39

  De Soto, Hernando

  citizen rights, 200, 201, 310

  economic rights, 19–20, 56, 174, 178, 193, 194, 310

  Developers, as players in blockchain ecosystem, 285

  Diasporas, 306–7

  Dictator’s learning curve, 265

  DigiCash, 4, 247

  Digital Asset Holdings, 63, 65

  Digital brainstorming, 223

  Digital certificates, 40

  Digital content management system, 238

  Digital Currency Association, U.K., 302

  Digital Currency Group, 86, 284

  Digital Currency Initiative (DCI), 247, 282, 284, 286, 301, 303, 305
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br />   Digital Economy, The (Tapscott), 164, 212, 309

  Digital identity, 15–16, 140, 176, 177–78, 197–98, 203–4, 264–65

  Digital registry of artwork, 132–33, 242–43

  Digital rights management (DRM), 132, 234

  Dilbert Principle, The (Adams), 106

  Direct democracy, 214, 218

  Disease management, 151, 158

  Disney, Walt, 246

  Dispute resolution, 100, 105, 193, 219, 221

  Distributed applications (DApps), 117–22

  bAirbnb, 115–17

  Distributed autonomous enterprises (DAEs), 22, 120, 121, 126–28, 143–44, 273–74

  Distributed capitalism, 25, 49, 163

  Distributed ledgers, 6–8, 18, 64, 65, 156, 181, 208–9

  Distributed power, 33–35, 202

  Distributed user accounts, 37

  Document keeping, 159, 205

  Domingo, Analie, 182–83, 186–87, 325n

  Double-entry accounting, 7, 74, 75, 310

  Double-spend problem, 30–31, 132

  Downey, Paul, 205

  Draper, Adam, 286–87

  Draper, Tim, 284, 310

  Drug therapies, 151, 158

  Dylan, Bob, 110

  ECash, 4

  Economic power, 12–13, 172–75

  Economic rights, 19–20, 45–49, 132–34, 172, 175

  Edelman’s Trust Barometer, 10

  Education

  players in blockchain ecosystem, 286

  role in culture, 246–49

  Edwards, Jim, 200

  Electricity consumption of blockchain, 24, 259–63

  Electronic voting (e-voting), 198, 215–17

  Ellipse (album), 227–28

  Emergency services, in IoTs, 158

  Empowerment, 107, 208

  Encryption, 28, 40, 243–44, 314n

  End-to-end (E2E) e-voting systems, 215–16

  Energy consumption of blockchain, 24, 259–63

  Energy grids, 145–50

  Energy management, in IoT, 157

  Enigma, 27–28

  Enterprise collaborators, 139–42

  Entrepreneurship, 22–23, 179–81

  Environmental Defense Fund, 222

  Environmental monitoring, in IoTs, 158

  Epigraph, 194

  Ernst & Young, 33, 36

  Essex, Aleks, 215

  Estonia, 197–99, 203, 204, 206–7

  Ethereum, 37, 83, 87–88, 119, 262, 278, 279–80

  Exchanging value, in financial services, 62, 64

  Executive Order 6102, 258

  Facebook, 13, 81, 118, 140, 180, 246

  Factom, 94, 194, 245–46

  Factory of Things, 160

  Fair competition, 93–94

  Fairfield, Josh, 34, 263, 264, 293

  Fair trade music, 227–39

  Farming, 157–58

  Featured Artists Coalition, 226

  Federal Reserve, U.S., 57, 174, 293, 294

  FedEx, 147

  Fiat currencies, 217, 255, 292, 293–96

  cryptocurrencies vs., 5, 38, 256, 260

  FICO score, 80, 82

 

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