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#blockchain and the World of #digibles
▻https://hackernoon.com/blockchain-and-the-world-of-digibles-63ff83310f9f?source=rss----3a8144ea

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You’ve probably heard of cryptocurrency — most notably, Bitcoin.The magic behind the screen that allows people to buy and trade #bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is a technology known as blockchain.“Next big thing” pundit Don Tapscott has “never seen a technology that he thought had greater potential for humanity.” It may be a bit hyperbolic, but illustrates the power of blockchain technology, nonetheless.Others predict blockchain will catalyze growth of the global economy by reinventing stock exchanges, asset management — and even the way fine art is bought and sold.What if they’re right?And what is blockchain, anyway?Transparent techEven in blockchain’s simplest form, it is still pretty technical — so bear with us.Blockchain is a time-stamped series of immutable records of data. These records are (...)

#taproot #digital-collectibles

Don Tapscott: How the blockchain is changing money and business

Tapscott gave a rather accessible talk about Blockchain on TED:

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og7PCYlDYsU

Normally, we when send information via internet, we actually send a copy of that information. There are domains where sending a copy is not really what we want; we want there to be only ONE original.

Today we rely on intermediaries to establish trust; i.e. we need a middleman. Tapscott explains how these centralisations are a weakness, as they can be hacked, and that it excludes some people, e.g those who do not have enough money to have a bank account.
It also can slow things down. And finally, they take a % of the cake.
Oh, and very last but not least, he points the loss of privacy we have by having to submit to them data about ourselves.

What if we had not an internet of information, but rather an internet of value, something vast, global, and available to everybody, without powerful intermediaries?
What if there were a native medium for “value”, “trust”?

This is were blockchain enters the game.

Tapscott also explains why we should care.
For example:
• protecting rights through immuable records
• creating a true sharing economy, without (or much less) social inequality
• end the remittance rip-off
• enable citizens to own and monetise their data (& protect privacy)
• ensure compensation for creators of value (creative content, artists)

This presentation is essentially a short version of his USI 2016 talk.
USI = Unexpected Sources of Inspiration, a yearly 2-day conference similar to TED.

The 2016 programme was :

▻http://www.usievents.com/fr/speakers

(no permalink, so i guess next year this will no longer be correct)

Tapscott’s presentation there was :

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqr8_iQv8hU

For his reference book, see

▻https://seenthis.net/messages/492226

#blockchain #ethereum #bitcoin

Faut-il prendre les promesses de la #blockchain au sérieux ?
▻http://www.internetactu.net/2016/06/09/faut-il-prendre-les-promesses-de-la-blockchain-au-serieux

Parmi les nombreux gourous dont aime à se doter le monde des technologies, Don Tapscott (@dtapscott) joue un rôle à part. Certainement parce que ses nombreux bestsellers interrogent toujours l’impact des transformations technologique sur le monde du travail – enfin le monde du business, l’endroit où l’on fait de l’argent. Depuis Digital Economy en 1997, jusqu’au célèbre Wikinomics en 2006,…

#confiance #usi

Vu qu’on parle quand même de plus en plus de ce livre en particulier :

Blockchain Revolution : How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World (Don Tapscott, Alex Tapscott)

▻http://dontapscott.com/books/blockchain-revolution

▻https://www.amazon.fr/Blockchain-Revolution-Technology-Changing-Business/dp/0399564063

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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.

#book #livre
#blockchain

Bitcoin May Be Failing, But The Technology Behind It Will Live On

▻http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregsatell/2016/05/21/bitcoin-may-be-failing-but-the-technology-behind-it-will-live-on

The reasons for Bitcoin’s failure are many, including poor governance, a lack of technological infrastructure and infighting within its community, [...] the fact that sovereign governments have the power to tax in their own currencies always made a Bitcoin takeover unlikely.

Still, as Don and Alex Tapscott explain in their new book, The Blockchain Revolution, the technology behind Bitcoin may indeed be revolutionary. In fact, despite Bitcoin’s collapse there are already thousands of entrepreneurs and investors betting on blockchain technology to reimagine transactions of all types. It’s still early days, but the potential is undeniable.

[...]

The Internet has helped to decentralize many important functions, but in many ways it has also eroded trust.

That, in a nutshell, is the role that blockchains, in the form of a trust protocol, can play in the years to come.

#blockchain
#bitcoin

La technologie blockchain fait rêver Internet | EurActiv.fr
▻http://www.euractiv.fr/sections/societe-de-linformation/la-technologie-blockchain-fait-rever-internet-320011

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La #blockchain est un grand livre comptable public et décentralisé qui enregistre toutes les transactions opérées dans un réseau d’égal à égal. Via leur ordinateur, les utilisateurs peuvent valider la transaction en temps réel. Plus besoin, donc, d’une tierce partie au centre pour certifier le transfert sur Internet.

Alors que la première génération d’Internet nous permettait seulement de partager de l’information, la seconde, qui s’appuie que la technologie blockchain, permet aux utilisateurs de partager de la valeur et de l’argent entre homologues a expliqué Don Tapscott, auteur et consultant, à EurActiv dans une récente interview.

Cela signifie que les #banques, les sociétés émettrices de cartes de crédit, les réseaux sociaux et même les gouvernements, dans certains cas, n’auront plus le rôle central qu’ils ont aujourd’hui.