1. Preface
a. Currency, Contracts, and
Applications beyond
Financial Markets
b. Blockchain 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0
c. What Is Bitcoin?
d. What Is the Blockchain?
e. The Connected World and
Blockchain: The Fifth
Disruptive Computing
Paradigm
i. M2M/IoT Bitcoin
Payment Network to
Enable the Machine
Economy
f. Mainstream Adoption: Trust,
Usability, Ease of Use
i. Bitcoin Culture: Bitfilm
Festival
g. Intention, Methodology, and
Structure of this Book
h. Safari® Books Online
i. How to Contact Us
j. Acknowledgments
2. 1. Blockchain 1.0: Currency
a. Technology Stack:
Blockchain, Protocol,
Currency
b. The Double-Spend and
Byzantine Generals’
Computing Problems
c. How a Cryptocurrency
Works
i. eWallet Services and
Personal
Cryptosecurity
ii. Merchant Acceptance
of Bitcoin
d. Summary: Blockchain 1.0 in
Practical Use
i. Relation to Fiat
Currency
ii. Regulatory Status
3. 2. Blockchain 2.0: Contracts
a. Financial Services
b. Crowdfunding
c. Bitcoin Prediction Markets
d. Smart Property
e. Smart Contracts
f. Blockchain 2.0 Protocol
Projects
g. Wallet Development Projects
h. Blockchain Development
Platforms and APIs
i. Blockchain Ecosystem:
Decentralized Storage,
Communication, and
Computation
j. Ethereum: Turing-Complete
Virtual Machine
i. Counterparty Re-
creates Ethereum’s
Smart Contract
Platform
k. Dapps, DAOs, DACs, and
DASs: Increasingly
Autonomous Smart Contracts
i. Dapps
ii. DAOs and DACs
iii. DASs and Self-
Bootstrapped
Organizations
iv. Automatic Markets and
Tradenets
l. The Blockchain as a Path to
Artificial Intelligence
4. 3. Blockchain 3.0: Justice
Applications Beyond Currency,
Economics, and Markets
a. Blockchain Technology Is a
New and Highly Effective
Model for Organizing
Activity
i. Extensibility of
Blockchain Technology
Concepts
ii. Fundamental Economic
Principles: Discovery,
Value Attribution, and
Exchange
iii. Blockchain Technology
Could Be Used in the
Administration of All
Quanta
iv. Blockchain Layer
Could Facilitate Big
Data’s Predictive Task
Automation
b. Distributed Censorship-
Resistant Organizational
Models
c. Namecoin: Decentralized
Domain Name System
i. Challenges and Other
Decentralized DNS
Services
ii. Freedom of
Speech/Anti-
Censorship
Applications:
Alexandria and Ostel
iii. Decentralized DNS
Functionality Beyond
Free Speech: Digital
Identity
d. Digital Identity Verification
i. Blockchain Neutrality
ii. Digital Divide of
Bitcoin
e. Digital Art: Blockchain
Attestation Services (Notary,
Intellectual Property
Protection)
i. Hashing Plus
Timestamping
ii. Proof of Existence
iii. Virtual Notary,
Bitnotar, and Chronobit
iv. Monegraph: Online
Graphics Protection
v. Digital Asset Proof as
an Automated Feature
vi. Batched Notary Chains
as a Class of
Blockchain
Infrastructure
vii. Personal Thinking
Blockchains
f. Blockchain Government
i. Decentralized
Governance Services
ii. PrecedentCoin:
Blockchain Dispute
Resolution
iii. Liquid Democracy and
Random-Sample
Elections
iv. Random-Sample
Elections
v. Futarchy: Two-Step
Democracy with Voting
+ Prediction Markets
vi. Societal Maturity
Impact of Blockchain
Governance
5. 4. Blockchain 3.0: Efficiency and
Coordination Applications Beyond
Currency, Economics, and Markets
a. Blockchain Science:
Gridcoin, Foldingcoin
i. Community
Supercomputing
ii. Global Public Health:
Bitcoin for Contagious
Disease Relief
iii. Charity Donations and
the Blockchain—
Sean’s Outpost
b. Blockchain Genomics
i. Blockchain Genomics
2.0: Industrialized All-
Human-Scale
Sequencing Solution
ii. Blockchain Technology
as a Universal Order-
of-Magnitude Progress
Model
iii. Genomecoin,
GenomicResearchcoin
c. Blockchain Health
i. Healthcoin
ii. EMRs on the
Blockchain: Personal
Health Record Storage
iii. Blockchain Health
Research Commons
iv. Blockchain Health
Notary
v. Doctor Vendor RFP
Services and
Assurance Contracts
vi. Virus Bank, Seed Vault
Backup
d. Blockchain Learning: Bitcoin
MOOCs and Smart Contract
Literacy
i. Learncoin
ii. Learning Contract
Exchanges
e. Blockchain Academic
Publishing: Journalcoin
f. The Blockchain Is Not for
Every Situation
g. Centralization-
Decentralization Tension and
Equilibrium
6. 5. Advanced Concepts
a. Terminology and Concepts
b. Currency, Token, Tokenizing
i. Communitycoin:
Hayek’s Private
Currencies Vie for
Attention
ii. Campuscoin
iii. Coin Drops as a
Strategy for Public
Adoption
iv. Currency: New
Meanings
c. Currency Multiplicity:
Monetary and Nonmonetary
Currencies
d. Demurrage Currencies:
Potentially Incitory and
Redistributable
i. Extensibility of
Demurrage Concept
and Features
7. 6. Limitations
a. Technical Challenges
b. Business Model Challenges
c. Scandals and Public
Perception
d. Government Regulation
e. Privacy Challenges for
Personal Records
f. Overall: Decentralization
Trends Likely to Persist
8. 7. Conclusion
a. The Blockchain Is an
Information Technology
i. Blockchain AI:
Consensus as the
Mechanism to Foster
“Friendly” AI
ii. Large Possibility Space
for Intelligence
iii. Only Friendly AIs Are
Able to Get Their
Transactions Executed
iv. Smart Contract
Advocates on Behalf of
Digital Intelligence
v. Blockchain Consensus
Increases the
Information Resolution
of the Universe
9. A. Cryptocurrency Basics
a. Public/Private-Key
Cryptography 101
10. B. Ledra Capital Mega Master
Blockchain List
