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Contents Foreword ....................................................................................................................................................... 6 Preface .......................................................................................................................................................... 8 Acknowledgements ..................................................................................................................................... 10 Glossary ....................................................................................................................................................... 11 Chapter 1: Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 12 Keeping an Open Mind ........................................................................................................................... 12 Altcoins.................................................................................................................................................... 13 Chapter 2: Smart Contracts......................................................................................................................... 15 In Cryptoledgers We Trust ...................................................................................................................... 16 Not a One-Trick Pony or One-Hit Wonder .............................................................................................. 19 Assurance Contracts ............................................................................................................................... 21 Legalese Challenges ................................................................................................................................ 22 Argentina................................................................................................................................................. 23 Outside perspective ................................................................................................................................ 26 Chapter 3: Next Generation Platforms ....................................................................................................... 31 Colored Coins .......................................................................................................................................... 31 Mastercoin .............................................................................................................................................. 32 NXT .......................................................................................................................................................... 33 Ethereum ................................................................................................................................................ 35 BitShares ................................................................................................................................................. 36 Counterparty.co ...................................................................................................................................... 38 Open-Transactions .................................................................................................................................. 41 Ripple ...................................................................................................................................................... 41 Current Cryptoprotocol Infrastructure ................................................................................................... 44 Chapter 4: Smart Property .......................................................................................................................... 47 Paper Meets Electricity ........................................................................................................................... 49 Slowly Evolving ........................................................................................................................................ 50 Chapter 5: How smart contracts could work .............................................................................................. 52 Theory is grey .......................................................................................................................................... 52 Time Clock and Log-in ............................................................................................................................. 52 3
Decentralized Autonomous Organization ............................................................................................... 53 Putting the DAC into DACP ..................................................................................................................... 54 Experimental Cases ................................................................................................................................. 55 Peercover ............................................................................................................................................ 56 Subledger ............................................................................................................................................ 58 Where the Rubber Meets the Road ........................................................................................................ 59 Abstractions and Decimalization ............................................................................................................ 60 Mitigating Abuse ..................................................................................................................................... 61 The Tao of DAO ....................................................................................................................................... 62 Chapter 6: Fundraising Landscape .............................................................................................................. 65 Changes over Four Decades .................................................................................................................... 65 Venture Capital Charts ............................................................................................................................ 66 Straight to the Source ............................................................................................................................. 67 What Angels Are Looking For .................................................................................................................. 68 Asia .......................................................................................................................................................... 71 Potential business opportunities ............................................................................................................ 74 Remittances, Value-Added Services, and Legal Considerations ............................................................. 77 Chapter 7: How to Get Involved with the Crypto Ecosystem ..................................................................... 80 Mining ..................................................................................................................................................... 80 Merchant Ecosystem .............................................................................................................................. 81 Developer, Developers, Developers ....................................................................................................... 82 BTCJam ................................................................................................................................................ 82 Crowdequity ........................................................................................................................................ 83 Ease of use and discovery ................................................................................................................... 84 Bitcloud ............................................................................................................................................... 86 Coinsimple ........................................................................................................................................... 87 BitPay .................................................................................................................................................. 88 Kraken ................................................................................................................................................. 89 Chapter 8: Jack-of-All-Trades? .................................................................................................................... 91 Niche payment processing platform ....................................................................................................... 92 Usage rates ............................................................................................................................................. 93 Decentralization for decentralization’s sake .......................................................................................... 94 4
Page 2 and 3: Great Chain of Numbers: A Guide to
Page 6 and 7: Cost benefit analysis of decentrali
Page 8 and 9: But then, neither is anybody else.
Page 10 and 11: years ago and the PC did 35 years a
Page 12 and 13: Glossary Because of the dynamic nat
Page 14 and 15: Economists and legal experts have s
Page 16 and 17: Chapter 2: Smart Contracts “Setti
Page 18 and 19: has other potential uses that have
Page 20 and 21: valueless transaction costs all whi
Page 22 and 23: While there are several other proje
Page 24 and 25: Implementation of DACs, however, is
Page 26 and 27: Such a system, if implemented, woul
Page 28 and 29: “In a similar fashion,” Byrne a
Page 30 and 31: While his proposal will likely rece
Page 32 and 33: Chapter 3: Next Generation Platform
Page 34 and 35: ather a Decentralized Autonomous Ap
Page 36 and 37: Ethereum Another “2.0” project
Page 38 and 39: wallet balance as shares rather tha
Page 40 and 41: and its launch was entirely decentr
Page 42 and 43: Open-Transactions Chris Odom is a c
Page 44 and 45: Yet as noted above, Ripple’s plat
Page 46 and 47: This Euler diagram shows two main s
Page 48 and 49: Chapter 4: Smart Property Since the
Page 50 and 51: e done with existing technology. Ho
Page 52 and 53: vulnerable systems authorized to in
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system to the same mechanism mentio
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those participating further down th
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(DAC). Furthermore, one of our curr
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Where the Rubber Meets the Road Cur
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several choices. He can immediately
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four years has been for one particu
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Chapter 6: Fundraising Landscape Ac
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Chart 3 illustrates that as a perce
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Ultimately he sees significantly gr
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What was unique about the conversat
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perspective like China and India wi
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While many users and commentators h
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Remittances, Value-Added Services,
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For example, since at least 1991 th
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financially was the miners themselv
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According to its 2013 report, Lexis
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Sean Percival, a tech-industry vete
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continuously builds the entire netw
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to secure a wallet. As a consequenc
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Chapter 8: Jack-of-All-Trades? Can
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It should be noted that the direct
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etter or easier? Just because you c
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NGO use-cases In an exchange with P
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independently run DAO these same in
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Chapter 9: Conclusions Even with so
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Synthesis If you, the reader, are n
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Instead of having to stand in one l
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Endnotes 1 Guanxi ( 关系 ) is a
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36 This issue can involve entire pa
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with the sole intention of building
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107 Chroma Wallet 108 Losing the pr
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Audit Report: Transparency and Acco
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184 Kevin Mitnick is perhaps the mo
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218 Compliance Program Design Prese
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270 Skype calls now equivalent to o
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315 One of the topics discussed at
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357 BitPay Exceeds $100,000,000 in
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maximum transactions per second fro
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446 Point-of-Sale Terminals Should
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