The first foundational book on blockchain technology from the bestselling author of
Wikinomics Don Tapscott and blockchain expert Alex Tapscott now in paperback with a new
preface and chapter explaining recent developments in the world of blockchain including
cryptoassets ICOs smart contracts and more. This book has had an enormous impact on the
evolution of blockchain in the world. -Satya Nadella CEO Microsoft Corporation In this
revelatory book Don and Alex Tapscott bring us a brilliantly researched highly readable and
essential book about the technology driving the future of the economy. Blockchain is the
ingeniously simple revolutionary protocol that allows transactions to be simultaneously
anonymous and secure by maintaining a tamperproof public ledger of value. Though it's best
known as the technology that drives bitcoin and other digital currencies it also has the
potential to go far beyond currency to record virtually everything of value to humankind from
birth and death certificates to insurance claims land titles and even votes. As with major
paradigm shifts that preceded it blockchain technology will create winners and losers. This
book shines a light on where it can lead us in the next decade and beyond.
