Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy

Doctor Vendor RFP Services and Assurance Contracts

Virus Bank, Seed Vault Backup

Blockchain Learning: Bitcoin MOOCs and Smart Contract Literacy

Learncoin

Learning Contract Exchanges

Blockchain Academic Publishing: Journalcoin

The Blockchain Is Not for Every Situation

Centralization-Decentralization Tension and Equilibrium

Chapter 5. Advanced Concepts

Terminology and Concepts

Currency, Token, Tokenizing

Communitycoin: Hayek’s Private Currencies Vie for Attention

Campuscoin

Coin Drops as a Strategy for Public Adoption

Currency: New Meanings

Currency Multiplicity: Monetary and Nonmonetary Currencies

Demurrage Currencies: Potentially Incitory and Redistributable

Extensibility of Demurrage Concept and Features

Chapter 6. Limitations

Technical Challenges

Business Model Challenges

Scandals and Public Perception

Government Regulation

Privacy Challenges for Personal Records

Overall: Decentralization Trends Likely to Persist

Chapter 7. Conclusion

The Blockchain Is an Information Technology

Blockchain AI: Consensus as the Mechanism to Foster “Friendly” AI

Large Possibility Space for Intelligence

Only Friendly AIs Are Able to Get Their Transactions Executed

Smart Contract Advocates on Behalf of Digital Intelligence

Blockchain Consensus Increases the Information Resolution of the Universe

Appendix A. Cryptocurrency Basics

Public/Private-Key Cryptography 101

Appendix B. Ledra Capital Mega Master Blockchain List

Endnotes and References

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