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Tokenomics

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Product type Book
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781789136326
Pages 486 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Sean Au Sean Au
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Thomas Power(GBP) Thomas Power(GBP)
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Tokenomics
Contributors
Preface
1. Once Upon a Token 2. A Bit of Coin Theory 3. The Potential of ICOs 4. Token Varieties 5. The Need for a Token 6. Playing by the Rules 7. The Token Sales Mechanics 8. White Paper, Website, and Team 9. Social Media and Influencers 10. Marketing and the launch 11. Voices of the ICO World 12. The Future Summary Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Technology


The crypto economic revolution is not going away. The idea that we can have a digital consensus network, without trusted third parties, is too powerful, so the concept of a giant, scalable, distributed grid of the internet is the real internet that many of us were hoping for.

There is a constant battle between the centralized and the decentralized world. Some ICO companies are looking to bank the unbanked, by providing services to an estimated 2.5 billion unbanked adults around the world (https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/05/2-billion-people-worldwide-are-unbanked-heres-how-to-change-this). Other ICO companies, such as OmiseGO, are looking to unbank the banks, but it is not all black and white. There are degrees of decentralization.

On the one end of the spectrum there is bitcoin, which, as previously mentioned, is decentralized to the degree where there is no leader. The trade-off here is that making decisions becomes difficult and slow, as demonstrated in the Great Bitcoin Scaling...

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