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Content
- Intro
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 | Saving the Web
- Securing the Web in brief
- Introduction
- The first ideal: Open access
- What is the open access ideal?
- How has the Web excluded potential users?
- Can blockchain technology improve access?
- Views of access from the decentralized future
- The second ideal: Fair participation
- What is the fair participation ideal?
- How has the Web permitted bias?
- Can blockchain technology promote fairness?
- Views of neutrality from the decentralized future
- The third ideal: Self-sovereignty
- What is the self-sovereignty ideal?
- How has the Web threatened self-sovereignty?
- Can blockchain technology ensure self-sovereignty?
- Views of sovereignty from the decentralized future
- Conclusions and recommendations
- Chapter 2 | The Convergence of Big Data and Blockchain
- Big data and blockchains in brief
- Introduction
- Challenges for organizations
- Challenges for consumers
- Blockchain and big data
- How Telstra applies blockchain to secure smart home systems
- Data sharing
- Data governance
- Data security
- Data privacy and identity
- Data ownership
- Shifting attitudes and policies
- Conclusions and recommendations
- What executives should keep in mind
- What organizations can do today
- Chapter 3 | Distributed Artificial Intelligence
- Distributed AI in brief
- What is artificial intelligence?
- Training data
- AI and centralization
- Blockchains and artificial intelligence
- Immutability
- Blockchain and democratization
- Smart contracts
- Blockchain governance
- Decentralized artificial intelligence
- Distributed AI versus decentralized AI
- DAI and blockchain's role
- Autonomous agents as AI representatives?
- Looking to the future: DAO
- Challenges with blockchain networks
- Scalability
- Governance
- Conclusion and recommendations
- Chapter 4 | The Ledger of Every Thing
- Blockchain and IoT in brief
- Introduction
- What is the Internet of Things?
- Typical architecture of an IoT deployment
- Blockchains and IoT
- Challenges of centralized IoT and what blockchains can do
- Limitations of blockchains for the IoT
- Implementing blockchains for IoT
- Present and future proof integration architecture
- Private blockchains
- Guidelines for durable IoT systems
- Conclusions and recommendations
- Editor's note
- Chapter 5 | Autonomous Vehicles and Blockchain
- Networked autonomous vehicles in brief
- State of our international highway network
- An industry-wide pivot
- The blessing and curse of autonomy
- Blockchain as a transportation platform
- Toll roads: Early blockchain-based vehicle value transfer system
- Mobile Open Blockchain Initiative
- Implementation considerations
- Blockchain latency and scalability
- Communications network latency
- Immutable records versus privacy
- Device security
- Legal and ethical implications
- Looking to the future
- A true sharing economy
- Flying cars
- Conclusions
- Chapter 6 | Slock.It
- Universal sharing network in brief
- The problem to be solved
- Slock.it's solution
- DAO: The hope, the hack, and the hard fork
- Culture reboot: Grounded in practical applications
- Radical transparency: The universal sharing network
- Postscript to the case
- Key takeaways
- Chapter 7 | Quantum-Proofing the Blockchain
- Quantum threat and defense in brief
- Introduction to the quantum threat
- A story from the year 2030
- The issue: Blockchain is not entirely quantum safe
- Analysis of our options
- An abstract model of the blockchain
- Ways of patching the blockchain
- Designing quantum-resistant blockchains from scratch
- Flavors of quantum adversaries
- Quantum-proofing existing blockchains
- Performance analysis
- What the experts say about blockchain security
- Conclusions and recommendations
- Chapter 8 | Standardized and Decentralized?
- Standardization imperative in brief
- An origin story
- Why standardize?
- Network effects
- Outsized economic gains
- How does the "standardization" model apply to blockchain?
- Semantic standardization: Defining the blockchain stack
- Beyond Bitcoin
- Subdivision of the blockchain layer
- Redefining overlay networks
- Connecting applications to protocols
- Adding end-to-end completeness
- The modern blockchain stack
- Technological standardization: Decentralized unanimity
- Core protocol layer: Ethereum Classic and Bitcoin Cash
- Consensus layer: Proof of work and proof of stake
- Economic layer: The ERC-20 token standard
- Recommendations for standardizing decentralized technology
- Relentlessly pursue semantic standardization
- Make better stuff than anyone else
- Reconsider waging a decentralized standards war
- Resist consensus for consensus' sake
- Conclusions
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- About the Blockchain Research Institute
- About the Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- Back Cover
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