An experimental new Internet-based form of money is created that anyone can generate at home; people build frightening firetrap computers full of video cards, putting out so much heat that one operator is hospitalised with heatstroke and brain damage.
A young physics student starts a revolutionary new marketplace immune to State coercion; he ends up ordering hits on people because they might threaten his great experiment, and is jailed for life without parole.
Fully automated contractual systems are proposed to make business and the law work better; the contracts people actually write are unregulated penny stock offerings whose fine print literally states that you are buying nothing of any value.
The biggest crowdfunding in history attracts $150 million on the promise that it will embody “the steadfast iron will of unstoppable code”; upon release it is immediately hacked, and $50 million is stolen.
How did we get here?
David Gerard covers the origins and history of Bitcoin to the present day, the other cryptocurrencies it spawned including Ethereum, the ICO craze and the 2017 crypto bubble, and the attempts to apply blockchains and smart contracts to business. Plus a case study on blockchains in the music industry.
Bitcoin and blockchains are not a technology story, but a psychology story.
Remember: if it sounds too good to be true, it almost certainly is.
0 有用 不过如北 2020-01-04 21:50:48
20#01 一本币圈吐槽笔记,从中本聪到Craig Wright到Vitalik黑了个遍。传统“区块链”的项目在capacity等方面的问题显而易见,而“非blockchain”的DLT项目即便技术问题能解决也难免多少有些为赋新词强说愁的尴尬。对于各种关键人物、项目背后的信息十分全面详细的梳理是这本书最有价值之处。后悔没有早点读到。
0 有用 flying1day 2020-01-12 11:49:11
还挺好的一本书,对各种hacking的黑历史如数家珍,读完后对加密货币信心全无。
0 有用 flying1day 2020-01-12 11:49:11
还挺好的一本书,对各种hacking的黑历史如数家珍,读完后对加密货币信心全无。
0 有用 不过如北 2020-01-04 21:50:48
20#01 一本币圈吐槽笔记,从中本聪到Craig Wright到Vitalik黑了个遍。传统“区块链”的项目在capacity等方面的问题显而易见,而“非blockchain”的DLT项目即便技术问题能解决也难免多少有些为赋新词强说愁的尴尬。对于各种关键人物、项目背后的信息十分全面详细的梳理是这本书最有价值之处。后悔没有早点读到。