Blockchain : The Advent of Disintermediation.

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: The Blockchain: a Tool for Non-centralization and Disintermediation -- Introduction to Part 1 -- 1. Non-centralized Architecture -- 1.1. Certified timestamping of transactions, operations, and events in a non-centralized registry -- 1.1.1. The network of nodes: the peer-to-peer architecture -- 1.1.2. The timestamping system -- 1.1.3. Recording of transactions and other operations -- 1.2. Encryption, anonymity, transparency, and verifiability in a non-centralized network -- 1.2.1. A unique approach to transparency -- 1.2.2. An advanced form of privacy by design -- 1.2.3. Blockchain and protection of trade secrets -- 1.3. The implications of a non-centralized model -- 1.3.1. Limiting the risk of data loss -- 1.3.2. The lack of a central authority -- 1.3.3. Non-centralization and game theory -- 1.3.4. Oracles and decentralization -- 2. The Dynamics of Disintermediation -- 2.1. Self-execution of smart contracts -- 2.1.1. The notion and origins of the smart contract -- 2.1.2. The functioning of smart contracts -- 2.1.3. The reference to the notion of contract -- 2.1.4. Smart contracts - a radically autonomous approach to the contract -- 2.2. Decentralized Applications (dApps) and Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) -- 2.2.1. Functioning and characteristics of dApps -- 2.2.2. User access to dApps -- 2.2.3. The economy and the monetization of dApps -- 2.2.4. Decentralized Autonomous Organization -- 2.3. Disintermediation and reduction of transaction costs -- 2.3.1. Disintermediation by blockchain -- 2.3.2. From control by intermediaries to control over intermediaries -- 2.3.3. The blockchain and trusted third parties -- 2.3.4. Crypto-asset vectors of disintermediation -- 2.3.5. A potential reduction in transaction costs.

3. Blockchain Prospects and Ongoing Improvements -- 3.1. Scalability -- 3.2. Blockchain interoperability -- 3.2.1. Atomic swap and Komodo -- 3.2.2. Interoperability and partnership between Hyperledger and Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) -- 3.2.3. ISO and interoperability -- 3.3. The junctions between the blockchain, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence -- 3.3.1. Blockchain and the Internet of Things -- 3.3.2. Blockchain and artificial intelligence -- Part 2: Blockchain Technology for a New Socio-economic Paradigm -- Introduction to Part 2 -- 4. Toward a Social Smart-contract? -- 4.1. Disintermediated direct democracy: perspectives opened by the blockchain -- 4.1.1. The terms of the social contract: centralized representative democracy or disintermediated direct democracy -- 4.1.2. A path between direct democracy and representative democracy: liquid democracy -- 4.1.3. Political disintermediation through blockchain and the hypothesis of a social smart-contract -- 4.2. Participation, voting, and DAOs -- 4.2.1. DAOs: new ways of participation -- 4.2.2. The Token Curated Registries -- 4.3. Registries, administration, and blockchain -- 4.3.1. Blockchain and e-Residency in Estonia -- 4.3.2. The blockchain and the opening of public data -- 5. Proteiform and Multi-sectoral Transformations -- 5.1. Tokenization of the economy and bartering -- 5.1.1. Progressive evolution of the monetary approach to crypto-assets -- 5.1.2. The typology of crypto-assets -- 5.1.3. Crypto-assets and bartering -- 5.2. Interbank transactions and blockchain -- 5.2.1. The Banque de France's MADRE project -- 5.3. Fundraising and ICOs -- 5.3.1. The concept of ICOs and other financing methods -- 5.3.2. The functioning of the ICOs -- 5.3.3. Regulations still uncertain -- 5.3.4. Financing social innovation -- 5.4. Legal and judicial evidence and timestamping by blockchain.

5.4.1. Method of legal proof by blockchain -- 5.4.2. First receipts by the judicial systems -- 5.5. The renewal of the cadastral system by the blockchain -- 5.5.1. The first experiments -- 5.6. The use of blockchain in the entertainment industry -- Conclusion -- References -- Index -- Other titles from iSTE in Information Systems, Web and Pervasive Computing -- EULA.

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