Blockchain Revolution

Don Tapscott Don Tapscott is one of the most influential living theorists about business and society. He is the author or co-author of 15 widely read books about new technologies and new media in business and society. Alex Tapscott Alex Tapscott is a Chartered Financial Analyst, working in New York and Toronto as Vice President of Institutional Equities, at the investment bank Canaccord Genuity. He is the author of Towards the Breaking Point: The Law and Political Emergency.

A thorough, balanced and enlightening guide to the next big thing' John Gapper, Financial Times Blockchain technology will change the world. In fact, it already has. Blockchain is the technology driving the future of the economy. It's best known for powering Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, but it has the potential to transform every industry it touches. It allows virtually anything we value -- from stocks, music and intellectual property to health records and even our identities -- to be stored in a secure and anonymous system that no one person or company owns. From birth and death certificates to insurance claims, land titles and even votes, data will never be managed in the same way again. Written by Don Tapscott, the author of Wikinomics, and his son, blockchain expert Alex Tapscott, Blockchain Revolution is not only an essential and simple introduction to a complex subject but it is also a vital guide to how it will change all our lives. Read it, or be left behind. 'The blockchain is one of the most fundamental inventions in the history of computer science. Read Blockchain Revolution to understand its profound implications' Marc Andreessen 'Mind-blowing' Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple 'This book has had an enormous impact on the evolution of blockchain in the world' Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft Corporation 'Iconic' Clay Christensen, author of The Innovator's Dilemma