Dario Rodrigues

The fourth chapter of the book “Political and Economic Implications of Blockchain Technology in Business and Healthcare” is political, arguing that digital centralization should not be an option for the free societies in the Blockchain Era. It presents political solutions and recommendations that figuratively are equivalent to a vaccine against the ideological virus of single […]

The third chapter of the book “Political and Economic Implications of Blockchain Technology in Business and Healthcare” discusses money’s essence, arguing that cryptocurrencies can be considered real money from a market perspective despite having no intrinsic value. As seen throughout the chapter, digital money bring together characteristics and technical attributes of traditional money with comparative […]

The first chapter of the book “Political and Economic Implications of Blockchain Technology in Business and Healthcare” deals with the ethical consequences of a new trust paradigm for humanity based on a disruptive “distributed trust”. Blockchain Technology (BT) is neither good nor bad, nor by no means neutral. This chapter explains why BT modifies the […]