{"id":12870,"date":"2018-07-01T10:40:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T05:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=12870"},"modified":"2020-11-15T13:54:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T08:24:10","slug":"blockchain-blueprint-for-a-new-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2018\/07\/01\/blockchain-blueprint-for-a-new-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockchain : Blueprint for a new economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Melanie Swan<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As bitcoin and its ilk start becoming mainstream, I think the book would serve as a good primer for those who would like to learn about the underlying technology &#8211; blockchain. It also provides a catalog of existing projects across diverse domains.<\/p>\n<p>Without doing a lot of technical deep diving, it not only provides an understanding of the concepts and features of blockchain, and highlights the current uses of the technology, but also provides a broad view of the different kinds of applications that could be made possible in the near future.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Though some of them might seem to be too futuristic, I think it is possible that we might see at least some of it in our lifetime. After all, a lot of the technology we currently use might have been deemed impossible even as recently as a quarter of a century ago. I was particularly fascinated by the possible influence of blockchain in the development of AI.<\/p>\n<p>While the beginnings are in the form of a currency, the potential to scale to adjacent areas like other financial domains, and then beyond that into health, identity, governance, publishing, science, organisations etc is very interesting. Definitely worth a read for those interested in how the system of the world is evolving.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12938 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Blockchain-Blueprint-for-a-new-economy.jpg\" alt=\"Blockchain Blueprint for a new economy\" width=\"441\" height=\"540\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Blockchain-Blueprint-for-a-new-economy.jpg 441w, https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Blockchain-Blueprint-for-a-new-economy-245x300.jpg 245w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 441px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 441\/540;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melanie Swan As bitcoin and its ilk start becoming mainstream, I think the book would serve as a good primer for those who would like to learn about the underlying technology &#8211; blockchain. It also provides a catalog of existing projects across diverse domains. Without doing a lot of technical deep diving, it not only <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2018\/07\/01\/blockchain-blueprint-for-a-new-economy\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[370,6010,6003],"tags":[5536,5537],"class_list":["post-12870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-future-tech","category-non-fiction","tag-blockchain-blueprint-for-a-new-economy","tag-melanie-swan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12939,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12870\/revisions\/12939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}