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Consensusland : A Cryptocurrency Utopia

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"Entertaining and fascinating. The prose is crisp and engaging, the voice confident, and the plot skillfully imagined." -- Readers' Favorite Book Review In this modern version of Gulliver's Travels, a businessman gets the offer of a lifetime from the tiny, island country of Consensusland, but the catch is troubling: give up everything he knows about business and finance on a leap of faith in cryptocurrency and the power of blockchain. Will he take that leap? Possibly the first fiction book about blockchain, Consensusland infuses a strong narrative with dramatic realism to show readers how the world changes when it uses cryptocurrency, not cash. "This book answers, in a very clever and engaging way, the question of what a society running on the blockchain could look like. But really, it goes deeper than that, intertwining allegory to capture a lot of the current debate amidst the naysayers that are resistant to change." -- Misha Yurchenko, author, "Bullish on Bitcoin"

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  • ISBN-13: 9781483491097
  • ISBN-10: 1483491099
  • Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services
  • Publish Date: November 2018
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.28 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.4 pounds
  • Page Count: 116

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