Blockchain Revolution

How the Technology Behind Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies Is Changing the World

By: Don Tapscott, Alex Tapscott

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 16 hrs and 40 mins

Publisher's summary

The technology likely to have the greatest impact on the future of the world economy has arrived, and it's not self-driving cars, solar energy, or artificial intelligence.

It's called the blockchain.

The first generation of the digital revolution brought us the Internet of information. The second generation - powered by blockchain technology - is bringing us the Internet of value: a new, distributed platform that can help us reshape the world of business and transform the old order of human affairs for the better.

Blockchain is the ingeniously simple, revolutionary protocol that allows transactions to be simultaneously anonymous and secure by maintaining a tamperproof public ledger of value. Though it's the technology that drives bitcoin and other digital currencies, the underlying framework has the potential to go far beyond these and record virtually everything of value to humankind, from birth and death certificates to insurance claims and even votes.

Why should you care? Maybe you're a music lover who wants artists to make a living off their art. Or a consumer who wants to know where that hamburger meat really came from. Perhaps you're an immigrant who's sick of paying big fees to send money home to loved ones. Or an entrepreneur looking for a new platform to build a business.

And those examples are barely the tip of the iceberg. This technology is public, encrypted, and readily available for anyone to use. It's already seeing widespread adoption in a number of areas. For example, forty-two (and counting) of the world's biggest financial institutions, including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Credit Suisse, have formed a consortium to investigate the blockchain for speedier and more secure transactions.

As with major paradigm shifts that preceded it, the blockchain will create winners and losers. And while opportunities abound, the risks of disruption and dislocation must not be ignored.

Don Tapscott, the bestselling author of Wikinomics, and his son, blockchain expert Alex Tapscott, bring us a brilliantly researched, highly listenable, and utterly foundational book about the future of the modern economy. Blockchain Revolution is the business leaders' playbook for the next decade and beyond.

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©2016 Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott (P)2016 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. Recorded by arrangement with Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

Going beyond BTC

Great book to get started with thinking through the application of the block chain tech to the world as a whole.
As most people, i became aware of the tech through BTC and other crypto currencies; the book helped me get familiar with potential broad applications of the tech.

Good primer on the subject

While some of the critical reviews here are valid, I think they largely miss the point. This is not a technical manual, nor an investing guide, but a decent introduction to a complicated subject. Yes the authors are true believers and yes there's more magical hand waving than I would like. But I learned a great deal and feel far more confident engaging with the subjects of block chain technology and cryptocurrency than I would otherwise.

Too many applications little detail

In general it is a good overview of the technology, but it lacks technical details. It also show many applications for it, however some of them would better belong to other realms like machine learning where the blockchain would be used only as a datastore without clear additional added value

Heavy on Vision - Light on Details

This a good high-level treatment of the promise of block chain technology. It is a bit light on technical detail, but those would be likely to overwhelm. Also it seems a bit overly optimistic in the current political environment.

Don is a visionary with a well researched topic

Don in this book brings forth topics transcending core technology. He explores new business models, governance and use cases.

excellent read

Great information for anyone looking to understand why the blockchain hype is legit. It seeks to explain why you need to get involved and how.

A contemporary essential

Where does Blockchain Revolution rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

In the genre it represents , one of the top 3.A critical data set for seeing the evolution of global communications and funding etc.

What did you like best about this story?

The rich data backup

Have you listened to any of Jeff Cummings’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Yes,..He is an excellent narrator.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Small Change=Big Change ..Funding social transformation

Any additional comments?

great book i always love the research and information he includes ...so much to integrate.

Blockchain primer

This is a must-read for anyone interested in Blockchain and related technology such as smart contracts and cryptocurrency. Outstanding material.

I wish I found it sooner

I wish I found this book when it first came out. Had I done so I might’ve gotten into the community at a time when there was plenty of room to grow. The performance and narration is good which is really important to me.

Evolution to revolution

While the narrator does a respectable
job, the time listening becomes annoying in that he reflects what seems to be a “pie in the sky” attitude of the authors. The quasi religious tone exhibited in their belief of “all things blockchain” gets to be tiresome.

Would that they spent more time explaining the mechanics of BC in order to better understand its “immutability” and so to bolster confidence in it. Rather they seem to be proselytizing more than explaining about a promising new technology.