Thesis: Blockchain: decentralization of money, power and the state

[aoppo]

Hello, I just finished my three-year degree in History, discussing the following thesis: Blockchain: decentralization of currency, power and the state.

The idea that prompted me to choose this topic was to analyze the blockchain phenomenon from a historical or social science perspective, trying to complicate what we already know and trying to make this subject simple for those who are not technicians.

I am not sure if I have succeeded, but it is definitely a start, and those who start are halfway there. Now I would like to gather feedbacks and then publish it as an e-book.

If you would like to read it and let me know what you think, you can write to me publicly or privately.

As I said, I would like to keep updating it (or rewriting it) and then make it an e-book. Any advice is appreciated!

Direct download: https://cloud.9minuti.it/s/6HEn2HFja6k4PMY

Link to my blog post https://alexoppo.com/ending-my-history-bachelor-with-a-thesis-about-blockchains

This discussion is a translation of this thread. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5451100.0

The thesis was translated with DeepL, so probably there are still errors.  

[aoppo]

I decided to post the index, so it's easier to understand which topics are covered. 

Introduction: blockchain and History........................................................................ ...4
What are blockchains...8
Digital collaboration.................................................................. ...............................8
What does fork mean?............................................................................... ...............9
Peer-to-peer relationships.................................................................. .....................10
Client-server and peer-to-peer paradigms.............................................................12
Cryptography...17
The blocks...18
Bitcoin...22
Ethereum and smart contracts...................................................................... ..........23
Religions and forks.......................................................................... .......................25
Clarification on forks.......................................................................... ....................28
The betrayal of digital........................................................................ ....................29
He who controls the past controls the present........................................................30
The future of metaverses..................................................................... ...................31
Updates...34
Internet of Things (IoT)............................................................................... ...........42
Artificial Intelligence................................................................... ..........................44
Centralization and Decentralization of Power............................................................47
Centralization of power and IoT............................................................................ .47
Decentralization...48
Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC)..............................................................50
The importance of data........................................................................... ................50
The Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse..................................................................51
Physical desecration.................................................................... ...........................53
Internet of Value...55
Social credit...56
Rewinding time...58
Decentralized violence....................................................................... ....................60
Mass adoption and revolution..................................................................... ...........62
Planning the revolution..................................................................... .....................64
The revolution just a click away........................................................................... .66
Reaction...68
Decentralized states...70
Governance...72
Digital traditions...73
Question of faith...75
Gods and goddesses...................................................................... .........................77
The great legislators.................................................................... ...........................78
What will happen to the nations?...........................................................................79
Anarcho-capitalism................................................................................................81
Hierarchies between node and full node................................................................83
2Information security....................................................................... ........................85
51% attack...87
The reversal of the paradigm....................................................................... ...........88
Family...90
The separation of the three coins.......................................................................... ..91
Final considerations...93
Acknowledgements...95
Bibliography - Sitography..................................................................... ......................96

[Road21Bitcoin]

Wow, this is really impressive and must have taken up so much time and research on your part. I have downloaded and started reading it and found your introduction really interesting. Now that I think about it, the blockchain is the natural evolution of all the technological evolutions the world has gone through. If I am understanding it right, the blockchain presents a new way of looking at history and how it will be perceived and understood in the future.

I will try to finish this and give my thoughts.

[Lorence.xD]

This is actually good, I remembered when I was in senior high school my friend suggested me to use cryptocurrency effectiveness into the economic situation as our research. I thought our professor would think of it as a joke but he'd agreed to our research title as long as we could provide informations for it. And we'd defended it since we have knowledge about crypto and it might help students to learn from it.

[Agbe]

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This is just a formulation of the idealist. If that is your project table of content and also if that is inside the main body of the project then it is a trash. You are not smart enough to convince the forum. Your topic is not will restructured to suit the table of content. Okay let me ask you a simple question if really a project of yours. From the Topical Sentence, which part is the Dependent Variable and independent Variable? He coming to the table where are chapters analysis? After the Introduction, it should be preface, and acknowledge, Then summary, you just start from introduction to no where. This your project is a very big lie. Because nobody writes school project plain like this.