Table of Contents

Series' Editor's Introduction ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: The Parable of the Tree 1 
I A Revolution in Nine Pages
1 The Trust Challenge 17
2 Satoshi's Solution 33
3 More than Money 53
4 Why Blockchain? 71
II Ledgers Meet Law
5 Unpacking Blockchain Trust 95
6 What Could Possible Go Wrong? 113
7 Blockchain Governance 133
8 Blockchain As/And Law 149
9 We're from the Government, and We're Here to Help 175
III Building the Decentralized Future
10 Connecting the Legal and the Technical 203
11 An Unpredictable Uncertainty 225
12 Conclusion 241
Notes 247
Index 305

About the Author

Kevin Werbach is Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Founder of the technology consulting firm Supernova Group, he has advised the FCC and Department of Commerce on communication policy. He is the coauthor of For the Win- How Game Thinking Can Revolutionize Your Business.

Reviews

However, Werbach argues, the most significant innovation of blockchain is not governmental or even technological but emotional: the creation of 'a new form of trust,' in which you put your confidence in a store of information without relying on any single person to authenticate it — trust the system, not its parts. The outstanding question is whether this method of cultivating trust is viable, and if it is, in what ways we can best deploy it. The answers we come up with are likely to determine blockchain's future.
—New York Times Book Review—