Blockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code

by Primavera De Filippi and Aaron Wright

Book Overview

Since Bitcoin appeared in 2009, the digital currency has been hailed as an Internet marvel and decried as the preferred transaction vehicle for all manner of criminals. It has left nearly everyone without a computer science degree confused: Just how do you "mine" money from ones and zeros?

The answer lies in a technology called blockchain, which can be used for much more than Bitcoin. A general-purpose tool for creating secure, decentralized,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674976428
• ISBN13: 9780674976429
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.3"