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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures and tables -- 1 Introducing blockchain -- 1.1 A transaction -- 1.2 Key characteristics -- 1.3 Categories -- 2 Blockchain's basic components -- 2.1 Technical components -- Peer-to-peer networks -- Client-server architecture -- Grid-architecture -- P2P architecture -- Virtual machines and smart contracts -- Technical summary -- 2.2 Mathematical components -- Hash algorithms -- Public-key cryptography -- Mathematical conclusions -- 2.3 Economic, political and social components -- Consensus -- Governance -- Incentive patterns -- Conclusions -- 3 Potential and actual socio-economic impacts of blockchain -- 3.1 Crypto knowledge and crypto usage -- 3.2 Perceived and actual use of cryptocurrencies -- 3.3 Dis-intermediation, localization and individualization -- 3.4 Censorship resistance and privacy -- 3.5 Property and the empowerment of the individual -- 3.6 New markets and marketplaces -- 3.7 Crypto-secession: the most disruptive potential of distributed ledger technology -- 4 Applications of blockchain technology in different domains -- 4.1 Central bank digital currency (CBDC) -- 4.2 Energy markets and infrastructure -- 4.3 Self-sovereign identity -- 4.4 Capital markets and security services -- Clearing and settlement -- Initial coin offerings -- 4.5 Supply chains and logistics -- 4.6 The Gambling industry -- 5 Conclusion: possible directions of blockchain -- References -- Index.

This book highlights the design, use and structure of blockchain systems and decentralized ledger technologies (B/DLT) for use in the construction industry. Construction remains a fragmented change-resistant industry with chronic problems of underproductivity and a very low digitization factor compared to other fields. In parallel, the convergence, embedding and coordination of digital technologies in the physical world provides a unique opportunity for the construction industry to leap ahead and adopt fourth industrial revolution technologies. Within this context, B/DLT are an excellent fit for the digitization of the construction industry. B/DLT are effective in this as they organize and align digital and physical supply chains, produce stigmergic coordination out of decentralization, enable the governance of complex projects for multiple stakeholders, while enabling the creation of a new class of business models and legal instruments for construction.

Intro -- Title page -- Table of Contents -- Copyright -- List of Contributors -- About the Editors -- Managing Editor -- Associate Editors -- About the Lead Contributors -- Guest Foreword -- Guest Biography -- Editor's Prologue: Blockchain Movement for Global Climate Actions -- Interlude I: How to Read This Book -- How to Read This Book -- Section 1: Scene-Setting - What's Going On? -- Chapter 1. A Conversation with Dr. Kelce Wilson on the Foundations of the Blockchain -- Abstract -- Chapter 2. A Conversation with Masterminds in Blockchain and Climate Change -- Abstract -- 2.1 Unleashing the Potential of Blockchain in Addressing Climate Change -- 2.2 Blockchain's Role in Peer-to-peer Energy Trading -- 2.3 Closing the Private Finance Gap -- 2.4 Restoring Faith in Climate Negotiations -- 2.5 Finance 4.0.-Incentivizing a Sharing Economy -- 2.6 The Future of Blockchain -- References -- Chapter 3. Blockchain 101: What is Blockchain and How Does This Revolutionary Technology Work? -- Abstract -- 3.1 Introduction to Distributed Ledgers -- 3.2 Examples of Distributed Ledgers -- 3.3 The Four Main Use Cases of Distributed Ledgers -- 3.4 Challenges and Road Ahead -- 3.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Decoding the Current Global Climate Finance Architecture -- Abstract -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Scale of Climate Investment Required -- 4.3 The State of Climate Finance Post-Paris Agreement -- 4.4 Climate Finance Market Observations -- 4.5 Barriers for Unlocking Climate Finance -- 4.6 Current Climate Finance Instruments to Bridge the "Gap" -- 4.7 Problems with Climate Finance Tracking -- 4.8 Blockchain-The Trust Machine -- References -- Interlude II -- Section 2: Blockchain for Smarter Renewable Energy Deployment -- Section 2. Blockchain for Smarter Renewable Energy Deployment -- Chapter 5. How Blockchain can Democratize Global Energy Supply -- Abstract

Over the past two decades, improvements in the information technology landscape have made the collection, preservation, and analysis of digital evidence extremely important. This book can provide a wide-ranging overview of how AI and blockchain can be used to solve problems in digital forensics using advanced tools and applications.

"This book offers relevant theoretical frameworks and empirical research findings to nurture investigations in blockchain technology innovations meant as a basis for understanding novel technological, organizational and societal settings involving blockchain technology"

Chapter 1. Role of Community Model in Networked Healthcare Organizations -- Chapter 2. Blockchain Architecture for the Healthcare Ecosystem -- Chapter 3. Blockchain-Based Dynamic Consent for Healthcare and Research -- Chapter 4. "Pay for Value": Blockchain for Drug Pricing in Canada -- Chapter 5. A Blockchain-Centric Data Sharing Framework for Building Trust in Healthcare Insurance -- Chapter 6. Learning to Trust: Exploring the Relationship between Trust and User Experience in Blockchain Systems -- Chapter 7. Design and Implementation Considerations for Blockchain for Health Records -- Chapter 8. Blockchain Implementation for Decentralized Real-World Research -- Chapter 9. The inter-organizational environment of blockchain in healthcare: The state of blockchain healthcare consortia.

Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. The institutional economics of blockchain -- 3. The universal turing institution -- 4. The microfoundations of ledgers -- 5. Money, dequity, and the barter economy of the future -- 6. Supply chains and identity -- 7. The V-form organisation and the future of the firm -- 8. Public policy in a blockchain era -- 9. Capitalism after Satoshi -- 10. Conclusion -- References -- Index.

"This book of contributed chapters focuses on the potential role of industry in reducing environmental burdens throughout the product life cycle from the extraction of raw materials, to the production of goods, to the use of those goods and to the management of the resulting wastes discussing how the integration of blockchain technology in the idea of sustainability and waste management techniques improve the field of Industrial ecology"--

"Recent years have seen a surge of interest in 'the commons' based on a simple yet radical idea: great improvements in production and management could be achieved by reducing barriers to knowledge exchange and power-sharing. Ranging from meadows, forests and parks to language, open source software (FLOSS and Blockchain) and 3D printers, the commons are distributed or common property resources/infrastructures which are self-managed by their user communities. While acknowledging the significant contributions that can be made through commons-based peer production, this book provides a critical examination of the commons with the aim of contributing to their long-term sustainability. In particular, the book examines the relation of Blockchain to the commons by illustrating the case study of the Commons Stack. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary ideas and methodologies, the chapters argue that there are a number of economic and social barriers which are obstructing the wider reproduction of the commons. Problems with access to capital and training, the lack of entrepreneurial and managerial skills, and the absence of institutional support from governments, larger coops, and NGOs, are some of the external problems facing the commons today. Meanwhile, localism, gated communities, vested interests, atavism, traditionalism, ideology, conflict, neo-conservatism and techno-elitism represent some of the internal contradictions inherent in the commons. Through overcoming these contradictions, the ultimate goal is to transform capitalism into the postcapitalism of the commons: the creation of a social economy self-organised around the commons. This book provides vital reading for anyone interested in the commons from economics, techno-politics and across the social sciences. Vangelis Papadimitropoulos is a post doc researcher in the School of Political Sciences at Panteion University, Athens, Greece"--

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Disintermediation Economics: An Introduction -- Trust Engineered! -- Why Disintermediation-And Not Decentralization Economics? The Problem of Dealing with Randomness -- The Structure of the Book -- Bibliography -- Part I Disintermediation in Microeconomics -- 2 Blockchain as an Economic Optimization Problem: Value, the Firm and the Limits of Decentralization -- Defining Blockchain Economics -- What Is the Real Economic Value of Blockchain? -- Any Blockchain Architecture Design Is an Economic Optimization Exercise -- The Blockchain Value Generation Continuum -- Blockchain 4.0: Overcoming Socio-Political and Technological Constraints -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 3 Economics of Smart Contracts: Efficiency and Legal Challenges -- Definition and Idea of Smart Contracts -- Smart Contracts and Blockchain -- Possible Use Cases -- Beyond the Applications: Smart Contracts and Economic Theory -- Contract Completeness and Smart Contracts -- Dynamic Contracting and Smart Contracts -- Making Smart Contracts, Smarter I: Physical and Programmable Intermediation -- Curators -- Oracles -- Making Smart Contracts, Smarter II: Ricardian Contracts -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 4 Corporate Strategies for Blockchain-Based Solutions -- What Blockchain Means for Businesses -- Market Outlook -- Why Companies Leverage Blockchain -- Corporate Demand for Blockchain Solutions -- When Blockchain Strategy Becomes the Business Model… -- Or the Operating Model to Deliver Value -- Capturing Business Through Tokenization -- How Companies Build Blockchain Services -- Blockchain Strategy -- The Consortium Model -- Platform Design -- Solution Architecture -- Use Case Design -- How to Engage with the Innovation Ecosystem -- Lead Collaboration with Emerging Disruptors.

"Recent years have seen a surge of interest in 'the commons' based on a simple yet radical idea: great improvements in production and management could be achieved by reducing barriers to knowledge exchange and power-sharing. Ranging from meadows, forests and parks to language, open source software (FLOSS and Blockchain) and 3D printers, the commons are distributed or common property resources/infrastructures which are self-managed by their user communities. While acknowledging the significant contributions that can be made through commons-based peer production, this book provides a critical examination of the commons with the aim of contributing to their long-term sustainability. In particular, the book examines the relation of Blockchain to the commons by illustrating the case study of the Commons Stack. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary ideas and methodologies, the chapters argue that there are a number of economic and social barriers which are obstructing the wider reproduction of the commons. Problems with access to capital and training, the lack of entrepreneurial and managerial skills, and the absence of institutional support from governments, larger coops, and NGOs, are some of the external problems facing the commons today. Meanwhile, localism, gated communities, vested interests, atavism, traditionalism, ideology, conflict, neo-conservatism and techno-elitism represent some of the internal contradictions inherent in the commons. Through overcoming these contradictions, the ultimate goal is to transform capitalism into the postcapitalism of the commons: the creation of a social economy self-organised around the commons. This book provides vital reading for anyone interested in the commons from economics, techno-politics and across the social sciences. Vangelis Papadimitropoulos is a post doc researcher in the School of Political Sciences at Panteion University, Athens, Greece"--

Intro -- Materialien zum Buch -- 1 Vorwort -- 1.1 Vorwort der Autoren -- 1.2 Geleitwort -- 2 Einführung -- 2.1 Was ist die Blockchain? -- 2.1.1 Herausforderungen des Internets -- 2.1.2 Die Blockchain -- 2.1.3 Die Blockchain als Problemlöser -- 2.2 Geschichte der Blockchain -- 2.2.1 Pioniere der Blockchain -- 2.2.2 Bitcoin -- 2.2.3 Altcoins -- 2.2.4 Blockchain 2.0 -- 2.2.5 Gegenwart und Zukunft -- 2.3 Anwendung der Blockchain-Technologie -- 2.3.1 Entscheidungskriterien für die Blockchain -- 2.3.2 Blockchain-Varianten -- 2.3.3 Branchen mit Blockchain-Potenzial -- 2.3.4 Realbeispiele für Blockchain-Anwendungen -- 2.4 Zusammenfassung -- 3 Die Basics: So funktioniert eine Blockchain -- 3.1 Kryptografische Grundlagen -- 3.1.1 Einführung in die Kryptografie -- 3.1.2 Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) -- 3.1.3 Kryptografische Hashfunktionen -- 3.2 Die Blockchain -- 3.2.1 Transaktionen -- 3.2.2 Vom Block zur Blockchain -- 3.2.3 Das Blockchain-System -- 3.2.4 Weiterentwicklungen der Blockchain -- 3.3 Die Blockchain 2.0 -- 3.3.1 Einführung und Grundlagen -- 3.3.2 Accounts und State Trie -- 3.3.3 Transaktionen und Transaction Trie -- 3.3.4 Receipts und Receipts Trie -- 3.3.5 Vom Block zur Blockchain 2.0 -- 3.3.6 Das Blockchain-System 2.0 -- 3.3.7 Weiterentwicklung der Ethereum-Plattform -- 3.4 Alternative Konsensmodelle -- 3.4.1 Proof-of-Stake (PoS) -- 3.4.2 Delegated Byzantine Fault Tolerance (dBFT) -- 3.4.3 Proof-of-Activity -- 3.4.4 Proof-of-Importance -- 3.4.5 Proof-of-Authority -- 3.4.6 Proof-of-Reputation -- 3.4.7 Proof-of-Capacity/Proof-of-Space -- 3.4.8 Proof-of-Elapsed-Time -- 3.4.9 Proof-of-Burn -- 3.5 Sicherheit der Blockchain -- 3.5.1 Blockchain und Informationssicherheit -- 3.5.2 Angriffsszenarien -- 3.6 Zusammenfassung -- 4 Eine eigene Blockchain erstellen - Grundfunktionen -- 4.1 Transaktionen - die kleinste Einheit.