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Tokenomics

You're reading from   Tokenomics The Crypto Shift of Blockchains, ICOs, and Tokens

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789136326
Length 486 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sean Au Sean Au
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Thomas Power(GBP) Thomas Power(GBP)
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Once Upon a Token FREE CHAPTER 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
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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...

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