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Blockchain/Bitcoin de opkomst van Web 4.0 ?

Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2021 22:48
by yatagarasu
Aangezien het op andere fora een heet hangijzer aan het worden is, zal ik hier ook eens een draadje voor aanmaken.

Voor de geïnteresseerden: enkele goede boeken/artikels om je deftig in te lezen.

The internet of money (Andreas M. Antanopoulos) (3 volumes die vooral het waarom van Bitcoin uitleggen, beste instaptitel, beschikbaar in ebook)
https://www.amazon.nl/Internet-Money-co ... 1113&psc=1
While many books explain the how of bitcoin, The Internet of Money delves into the why of bitcoin. Acclaimed information-security expert and author of Mastering Bitcoin, Andreas M. Antonopoulos examines and contextualizes the significance of bitcoin through a series of essays spanning the exhilarating maturation of this technology.
Bitcoin, a technological breakthrough quietly introduced to the world in 2008, is transforming much more than finance. Bitcoin is disrupting antiquated industries to bring financial independence to billions worldwide. In this book, Andreas explains why bitcoin is a financial and technological evolution with potential far exceeding the label "digital currency."
Andreas goes beyond exploring the technical functioning of the bitcoin network by illuminating bitcoin's philosophical, social, and historical implications. As the internet has essentially transformed how people around the world interact and has permanently impacted our lives in ways we never could have imagined, bitcoin--the internet of money--is fundamentally changing our approach to solving social, political, and economic problems through decentralized technology.
The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking (Saifedean Ammous)

https://www.amazon.nl/Bitcoin-Standard- ... 3861&psc=1
Recensie

Flaptekst
THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO BITCOIN'S HISTORY, PROPERTIES, USES, AND FUTURE

"Bitcoin has no owner, no authority that can decide on its fate. It is owned by the crowd, its users. And it now has a track record of several years, enough for it to be an animal in its own right. Its mere existence is an insurance policy that will remind governments that the last object the establishment could control, namely, the currency, is no longer their monopoly. This gives us, the crowd, an insurance policy against an Orwellian future."
—From the Foreword by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In The Bitcoin Standard, economist Saifedean Ammous walks readers through the fascinating history of the technologies of money and explores what gave these technologies their monetary role, how they lost it, what that teaches us about the desirable features of money, and how Bitcoin is designed to improve on these technologies. Ammous elucidates the economic, social, cultural, and political benefits of sound money over unsound money to allow for an informed discussion of the potential role Bitcoin could play in the digital economy of the future. Rather than as a currency for criminals or a cheap mass consumer payment network, this book argues Bitcoin is emerging as a decentralized, politically neutral, free-market alternative to national central banks, with potentially enormous implications for individual freedom and prosperity. For anyone looking for a clear understanding of this new digital money, The Bitcoin Standard is the essential resource.

Achterflaptekst
When a pseudonymous programmer introduced "a new electronic cash system that's fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party" to a small online mailing list in 2008, very few paid attention. Ten years later, and against all odds, this upstart autonomous decentralized software offers an unstoppable and globally- accessible hard money alternative to modern central banks. The Bitcoin Standard analyzes the historical context to the rise of Bitcoin, the economic properties that have allowed it to grow quickly, and its likely economic, political, and social implications.

While Bitcoin is a new invention of the digital age, the problem it purports to solve is as old as human society itself: transferring value across time and space. Ammous takes the reader on an engaging journey through the history of technologies performing the functions of money, from primitive systems of trading limestones and seashells, to metals, coins, the gold standard, and modern government debt. Exploring what gave these technologies their monetary role, and how most lost it, provides the reader with a good idea of what makes for sound money, and sets the stage for an economic discussion of its consequences for individual and societal future-orientation, capital accumulation, trade, peace, culture, and art. Compellingly, Ammous shows that it is no coincidence that the loftiest achievements of humanity have come in societies enjoying the benefits of sound monetary regimes, nor is it coincidental that monetary collapse has usually accompanied civilizational collapse.

With this background in place, the book moves on to explain the operation of Bitcoin in a functional and intuitive way. Bitcoin is a decentralized, distributed piece of software that converts electricity and processing power into indisputably accurate records, thus allowing its users to utilize the Internet to perform the traditional functions of money without having to rely on, or trust, any authorities or infrastructure in the physical world. Bitcoin is thus best understood as the first successfully implemented form of digital cash and digital hard money. With an automated and perfectly predictable monetary policy, and the ability to perform final settlement of large sums across the world in a matter of minutes, Bitcoin's real competitive edge might just be as a store of value and network for final settlement of large payments—a digital form of gold with a built-in settlement infrastructure.

Ammous' firm grasp of the technological possibilities as well as the historical realities of monetary evolution provides for a fascinating exploration of the ramifications of voluntary free market money. As it challenges the most sacred of government monopolies, Bitcoin shifts the pendulum of sovereignty away from governments in favor of individuals, offering us the tantalizing possibility of a world where money is fully extricated from politics and unrestrained by borders.

The final chapter of the book explores some of the most common questions surrounding Bitcoin: Is Bitcoin mining a waste of energy? Is Bitcoin for criminals? Who controls Bitcoin, and can they change it if they please? How can Bitcoin be killed? And what to make of all the thousands of Bitcoin knock-offs, and the many supposed applications of Bitcoin's 'blockchain technology'? The Bitcoin Standard is the essential resource for a clear understanding of the rise of the Internet's decentralized, apolitical, free-market alternative to national central banks.

Over de auteur
SAIFEDEAN AMMOUS, PHD, is a Professor of Economics at the Lebanese American University, and member of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University.
The Big Reset (Willem Middelkoop) (Vooral een boek waarin het traditioneel financieel systeem wordt uitgelegd)
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q ... 7tdCTWUjKn
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect
savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe
store of value. If there were, the government would have to make
its holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold. If everyone
decided, for example, to convert all his bank deposits to silver
or copper or any other good, and thereafter declined to accept
checks as payment for goods, bank deposits would lose their
purchasing power and government-created bank credit would
be worthless as a claim on goods. The financial policy of the
welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of
wealth to protect themselves. […] This is the shabby secret of the
welfare statists’ tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a
scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of
this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the
statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
– Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1966)

Zien we de opkomst van het money-protocol van het internet net zoals we de opkomst van het mail-protocol van het internet zagen ? Zoals we VOIP zagen (voice-over-ip), zien we nu MOIP (money-over-ip) ? Zien we in de toekomst 2 robots een autonome geldtransactie tussen elkaar doen ? Zullen de NFT's (non fungible tokens) die uit het geldprotocol komen bijdragen aan de creatie van het "metaverse" ? Een volledig virtuele wereld waarin we met onze virtuele brillen gaan kunnen wonen/gamen. Stof tot nadenken.