Blockchain Revolution

NOTES
Chapter 1: The Trust Protocol
1
. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/419452/moores-outlaws/.
2
. https://cryptome.org/jya/digicrash.htm.
3
. “How DigiCash Blew Everything,” translated from Dutch into English by Ian Grigg and colleagues and e-
mailed to Robert Hettinga mailing list, February 10, 1999. Cryptome.org. John Young Architects. Web. July 19,
2015. https://cryptome.org/jya/digicash.htm. “How DigiCash Alles Verknalde”
www.nextmagazine.nl/ecash.htm. Next! Magazine, January 1999. Web. July 19, 2015.
https://web.archive.org/web/19990427/http://nextmagazine.nl/ecash.htm.
4
. http://nakamotoinstitute.org/the-god-protocols/.
5
. Brian Fung, “Marc Andreessen: In 20 Years, We’ll Talk About Bitcoin Like We Talk About the Internet Today,”
The Washington Post, May 21, 2014; www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/21/marc-
andreessen-in-20-years-well-talk-about-bitcoin-like-we-talk-about-the-internet-today/, accessed January 21,
2015.
6
. Interview with Ben Lawsky, July 2, 2015.
7
. www.economist.com/news/leaders/21677198-technology-behind-bitcoin-could-transform-how-economy-
works-trust-machine.
8
. www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-venture-capital/.
9
. Fung, “Marc Andreessen.”
10
. www.coindesk.com/bank-of-england-economist-digital-currency/.
11
. Leigh Buchanan reports on the Kauffman Foundation research in “American Entrepreneurship Is Actually
Vanishing,” www.businessinsider.com/927-people-own-half-of-the-bitcoins-2013-12.
12
. This definition was developed in Don Tapscott and David Ticoll, The Naked Corporation (New York: Free
Press, 2003).
13
. www.edelman.com/news/trust-institutions-drops-level-great-recession/.
14
. www.gallup.com/poll/1597/confidence-institutions.aspx.
15
. Interview with Carlos Moreira, September 3, 2015.
16
. Don Tapscott is a member of the WISeKey Advisory Board.
17
. Don Tapscott has been one of many authors to write about the dark side potential of the digital age, for
example in The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence (New York: McGraw
Hill, 1995).
18
. Interview with Carlos Moreira, September 3, 2015.
19
. Tom Peters, “The Wow Project,” Fast Company, Mansueto Ventures LLC, April 30, 1999;
http://www.fastcompany.com/36831/wow-project.
20
. Interview with Carlos Moreira, September 3, 2015.
21
. “The Virtual You” is a term popularized by Ann Cavoukian and Don Tapscott in Who Knows: Safeguarding
Your Privacy in a Networked World (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997).
22
. Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems, was the first in 1999.
23
. Interview with Andreas Antonopoulos, July 20, 2015.
24
. Interview with Joe Lubin, July 30, 2015.

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25
. Eventually sophisticated personal data query services will not even be able to read that data because it will be
given to them encrypted. Still they will be able to answer questions regarding that data by asking those questions
of the encrypted data itself using homomorphic encryption techniques.
26
. Leading thinkers have a broad view of prosperity that goes beyond GDP growth. Harvard’s Michael Porter has
created a social progress imperative http://www.socialprogressimperative.org. Economist Joseph Stiglitz and
others have researched measures beyond GDP—http://www.insee.fr/fr/publications-et-
services/dossiers_web/stiglitz/doc-commission/RAPPORT_anglais.pdf. There are other efforts that try to
improve GDP but stay closer to home—http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2013/11/29/beyond-gdp-get-ready-
for-a-new-way-to-measure-the-economy/.
27
. Interview with Vitalik Buterin, September 30, 2015.
28
. Luigi Marco Bassani, “Life, Liberty and . . . : Jefferson on Property Rights,” Journal of Libertarian Studies
18(1) (Winter 2004): 58.
29
. Interview with Hernando de Soto, November 27, 2015.
30
. Ibid.
31
. www.theguardian.com/music/2013/feb/24/napster-music-free-file-sharing, accessed August 12, 2015.
32
. www.inc.com/magazine/201505/leigh-buchanan/the-vanishing-startups-in-decline.html.
33
. Naked City was a police drama series that aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network.
34
. An October 2015 World Economic Forum report suggests it will not become mainstream until 2027.
35
. Interview with David Ticoll, December 12, 2015.