Unblocked: how blockchains will change your business (and what to do about it)

Cover
 Copyright
 Table of Contents
 Preface
 THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
 Introduction
 DAWN, RISING
 Part I.A MOVEMENT BUILDS
 Chapter 1. KINDLING, MEET MATCH
 Chapter 2. CATCHING FIRE
 Bite While the Apple Is Raw
 Chance, Unchained
 Opportunity Hidden by Complexity
 The Six Forces of an Unblocked Era
 It\'s Time
 Chapter 3. WHAT IS A BLOCKCHAIN?
 Beth Is Correct
 At the Center: Decentralization
 Value Exchange Made Smarter Through \"Smart Contracts\"
 Why is it Called a Blockchain?
 Blockchain or Blockchains?
 What Does Bitcoin Have to Do with Blockchains?
 The Many Roles of Cryptoassets Retaining Privacy When the Ledger is Open to EveryoneSo What?
 Blockchains Across Industries
 Chapter 4. THE GENESIS OF THE UNBLOCKED CUSTOMER
 The Consumer Technology Created
 How Did We Get Here?
 The Internet: Built to Fail
 Enter Blockchains
 The Era of the Unblocked Customer
 A Whole New Layer of Expectations
 Blockchain-Era Expectations Will Put More Pressure on Businesses
 Why Now?
 A Huge and Disillusioned Generation
 The First Technology with Democratization Baked In?
 Chapter 5. TORTOISE OR HARE?
 How Far Along Are We?
 The Age of Open Innovation Unlocking the New Tools of Open InnovationBreaking Away from Silicon Valley
 The Decentralization of Entrepreneurship
 There Will Be Blood
 Building on The Backs of Failure
 Part II. THE SIX FORCES OF AN UNBLOCKED FUTURE
 Chapter 6. MORE VALUE
 Summary
 The Setting
 Wired for Middlemen
 The Rising Cost-and Power-of the Middleman
 When Cost Is Uncovered
 What Blockchains Make Possible
 Pure Peer-to-Peer
 In Code We Trust
 A Broad Range of Industries Are Vulnerable
 Implications: A New Balance of Power
 Death by Blockchains?
 The Middleman Is dead. Long Live the Middleman! We\'ve Welcomed New Middlemen into our LivesThe Hinge is Value
 Customers Don\'t Understand What They Can\'t See
 At Some Point, the Unblocked Customer Will Question Your Worth
 Value Is Not One-Size-Fits-All
 The Sharing Economy, Everywhere
 We May End Up Somewhere in the Middle
 The Next-Gen Middleman
 The Importance of Clear Value
 The Value of an Ecosystem
 Put a Spotlight on Hidden Value
 Cautions and Considerations
 Cautions
 Considerations
 Examples
 Decent: Affordable Health Insurance for All
 Open Garden: Disintermediating the Internet Service Provider Lantmäteriet: Streamlining Land RegistryChapter 7. DEEPER TRANSPARENCY
 Summary
 The Setting
 Seeking Assurance in a Complex World
 Consumers Expect More
 Sustainability and Responsibility: The New Corporate Norm
 Everyone Is a Stakeholder
 The Focus on Sustainability Is Here to Stay
 A Business Case for Urgency
 Transparency Affects How Our Brain Perceives a Brand
 Trust in Crisis
 Fake News Fuels Skepticism
 The Elusive Nature of True Transparency
 What Blockchains Make Possible
 All-Seeing Meets the Ever-Knowing
 Coding for Trust
 Tracking the Intangibles: Can Blockchains Kill Fake News?