Blockchain Beyond Crypto
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Blockchain Beyond Crypto
Blockchain Beyond Crypto explores the vast potential of blockchain technology beyond cryptocurrencies, arguing its true value lies in transforming sectors like supply chain management, healthcare, and secure voting systems. The book dives into the core elements of blockchain, such as distributed ledger technology and smart contracts, while also examining real-world applications and the hurdles to widespread adoption. One intriguing fact is blockchain's ability to enhance transparency in supply chains, tracing products from origin to consumer. Another is its potential to revolutionize healthcare data management, ensuring secure and patient-controlled access. The book uniquely balances technical aspects with practical business applications, using case studies from tech reports and innovation studies to demonstrate both successes and failures. It avoids technical jargon, making complex concepts accessible through clear explanations and examples. Each chapter focuses on a specific industry, analyzing current challenges and presenting blockchain-based solutions. The book progresses from demystifying blockchain's underlying technology to exploring its applications in various industries, concluding with an examination of the challenges hindering its widespread adoption and a projection of future advancements. By providing a balanced and informed perspective, Blockchain Beyond Crypto equips readers with the knowledge to navigate the blockchain landscape and understand its transformative potential.
Disrupting Finance
This open access Pivot demonstrates how a variety of technologies act as innovation catalysts within the banking and financial services sector. Traditional banks and financial services are under increasing competition from global IT companies such as Google, Apple, Amazon and PayPal whilst facing pressure from investors to reduce costs, increase agility and improve customer retention. Technologies such as blockchain, cloud computing, mobile technologies, big data analytics and social media therefore have perhaps more potential in this industry and area of business than any other. This book defines a fintech ecosystem for the 21st century, providing a state-of-the art review of current literature, suggesting avenues for new research and offering perspectives from business, technology and industry.
Beyond Bitcoin
After over a decade of Bitcoin, which has now moved beyond lore and hype into an increasingly robust star in the firmament of global assets, a new and more important question has arisen. What happens beyond Bitcoin? The answer is decentralised finance - 'DeFi'. Tech and finance experts Steven Boykey Sidley and Simon Dingle argue that DeFi - which enables all manner of financial transactions to take place directly, person to person, without the involvement of financial institutions - will redesign the cogs and wheels in the engines of trust, and make the remarkable rise of Bitcoin look quaint by comparison. It will disrupt and displace fine and respectable companies, if not entire industries. Sidley and Dingle explain how DeFi works, introduce the organisations and individuals that comprise the new industry, and identify the likely winners and losers in the coming revolution.