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Political and Economic Implications of Blockchain Technology in Business and Healthcare
A group of computers that are linked together with equal permissions and responsibilities for processing data. Each connected machine has the same rights as its “peers” and can be used for the same purposes.
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Blockchanging Money: Reengineering the Free World Incentive System
Dario de Oliveira Rodrigues (Instituto Politécnico de Santarém, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7363-1.ch003
Abstract
Blockchain technology is changing the world incentive system, making programmable money. This kind of money is only fruitful and democratically livable in a transparent political environment. Otherwise, instead of unleashing innovation and collective action with the market's visible hand of qualified money, the new internet of value will deliver a digital money with the same algorithmic fate that social media met on the previous internet. The latter allows digitizing users' data and has been used to manipulate consumers and public opinion (possibly in the last two U.S. Presidential elections). Similarly, the former will let states and corporatocracy cross-reference social media and digital money's data, hurting privacy even more. As blockchains disseminate, having the crucial economic advantage of reducing transaction costs, only free-market competition between private and public blockchains guarantee transparency and democracy. Blockchain technology is the real McCoy, and decentralizing digital money is the free world's best shot, especially in the new normal triggered by COVID-19.
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Policy-Based Management for Call Control
A communication way where each node has the same authority and communication capability. They create a virtual network, overlaid on the Internet. Its members organize themselves into a topology for data transmission.
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Inevitable Battle Against Botnets
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks consist of peers that are connected to each other with the internet. Files can be shared between systems and every computer has the probability of becoming a client and a file server.
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