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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: blockchain and the new architecture of trust
  name:
    name part: Werbach, Kevin
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: How the blockchain-a system built on foundations of mutual mistrust-can become trustworthy.The blockchain entered the world on January 3, 2009, introducing an innovative new trust architecture: an environment in which users trust a system-for example, a shared ledger of information-without necessarily trusting any of its components. The cryptocurrency Bitcoin is the most famous implementation of the blockchain, but hundreds of other companies have been founded and billions of dollars invested in similar applications since Bitcoin's launch. Some see the blockchain as offering more opportunities for criminal behavior than benefits to society. In this book, Kevin Werbach shows how a technology resting on foundations of mutual mistrust can become trustworthy. The blockchain, built on open software and decentralized foundations that allow anyone to participate, seems like a threat to any form of regulation. In fact, Werbach argues, law and the blockchain need each other. Blockchain systems that ignore law and governance are likely to fail, or to become outlaw technologies irrelevant to the mainstream economy. That, Werbach cautions, would be a tragic waste of potential. If, however, we recognize the blockchain as a kind of legal technology, which shapes behavior in new ways, it can be harnessed to create tremendous business and social value.
  note: Kevin Werbach.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-304) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Electronic funds transfers
  subject:
    topic: Blockchains (Databases)
  subject:
    topic: Bitcoin
  subject:
    topic: Trust
  subject:
    topic: Finance
    topic: Technological innovations
  subject:
    topic: Bitcoin
  subject:
    topic: Blockchains (Databases)
  subject:
    topic: Electronic funds transfers
  subject:
    topic: Finance
    topic: Technological innovations
  subject:
    topic: Trust
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance
  classification: HG1710 .W47 2018
  classification: 332.1/78
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Information policy series
  identifier: 9780262038935
  identifier: 0262038935
  identifier: 2018011211
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180312
    record change date: 20181219152724.0
    record identifier: in00003996649
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng