The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything

　　銀行大者恆大，隱私權在駭客攻擊下顯得岌岌可危，信用卡詐騙更變成家常便飯，許多曾經旨在令我們生活更輕鬆、經濟更有效率的老舊系統已無法完美達成任務。然而，有一種方法可以超越這種現況：一種新作業系統將為我們帶來革命性的變化，那就是區塊鏈（Blockchain）。



　　身為當代的我們，都需要了解區塊鏈—因為它將是推動人類進步的關鍵。在《The Truth Machine》書中，作者揭開了區塊鏈的神秘面紗，並解釋為何區塊鏈能讓我們重新掌握數據、資產，讓數十億人得以進入全球經濟。作者並帶我們清楚看見區塊鏈所能帶來的資訊透明度，而這將能使以往掌握權力的經濟掮客讓位，為我們日益全球化的世界重新定義「信任」兩字。



　　「對於比特幣人人觀點不同，但很少有人懷疑區塊鏈的革命潛力。對於已發生和未來可能發生的事，《The Truth Machine》都做了最佳預測，關心未來經濟走向的人不容錯過。」--美國前財政部長勞倫斯．薩默斯（Lawrence H. Summers）



　　「《The Truth Machine》深入的分析與研究，將帶你了解加密貨幣與區塊鏈的歷史。」--《Mastering Bitcoin and The Internet of Money》系列作者Andreas M Antonopoulos

"Views differ on bitcoin, but few doubt the transformative potential of Blockchain technology. The Truth Machine is the best book so far on what has happened and what may come along. It demands the attention of anyone concerned with our economic future." --Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard, Former Treasury Secretary

From Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna, the authors of The Age of Cryptocurrency, comes the definitive work on the Internet's Next Big Thing: The Blockchain.

Big banks have grown bigger and more entrenched. Privacy exists only until the next hack. Credit card fraud is a fact of life. Many of the "legacy systems" once designed to make our lives easier and our economy more efficient are no longer up to the task. Yet there is a way past all this--a new kind of operating system with the potential to revolutionize vast swaths of our economy: the blockchain.

In The Truth Machine, Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna demystify the blockchain and explain why it can restore personal control over our data, assets, and identities; grant billions of excluded people access to the global economy; and shift the balance of power to revive society's faith in itself. They reveal the disruption it promises for industries including finance, tech, legal, and shipping.

Casey and Vigna expose the challenge of replacing trusted (and not-so-trusted) institutions on which we've relied for centuries with a radical model that bypasses them. The Truth Machine reveals the empowerment possible when self-interested middlemen give way to the transparency of the blockchain, while highlighting the job losses, assertion of special interests, and threat to social cohesion that will accompany this shift. With the same balanced perspective they brought to The Age of Cryptocurrency, Casey and Vigna show why we all must care about the path that blockchain technology takes--moving humanity forward, not backward.

MICHAEL J. CASEY is a senior advisor at MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative and chairman of CoinDesk’s advisory board. He is a former Wall Street Journal columnist and has authored four other books. PAUL VIGNA is a reporter at The Wall Street Journal. The Truth Machine is his third book.