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Beyond Bitcoin: Decentralised Finance and the End of Banks
The first book for a popular audience on the transformative, democratising technology of 'DeFi'.
After over a decade of Bitcoin, which has now moved beyond lore and hype into an increasingly robust star in the firmament of global assets, a new and more important question has arisen. What happens beyond Bitcoin? The answer is decentralised finance - 'DeFi'.
Tech and finance experts Steven Boykey Sidley and Simon Dingle argue that DeFi - which enables all manner of financial transactions to take place directly, person to person, without the involvement of financial institutions - will redesign the cogs and wheels in the engines of trust, and make the remarkable rise of Bitcoin look quaint by comparison. It will disrupt and displace fine and respectable companies, if not entire industries.
Sidley and Dingle explain how DeFi works, introduce the organisations and individuals that comprise the new industry, and identify the likely winners and losers in the coming revolution.
After over a decade of Bitcoin, which has now moved beyond lore and hype into an increasingly robust star in the firmament of global assets, a new and more important question has arisen. What happens beyond Bitcoin? The answer is decentralised finance - 'DeFi'.
Tech and finance experts Steven Boykey Sidley and Simon Dingle argue that DeFi - which enables all manner of financial transactions to take place directly, person to person, without the involvement of financial institutions - will redesign the cogs and wheels in the engines of trust, and make the remarkable rise of Bitcoin look quaint by comparison. It will disrupt and displace fine and respectable companies, if not entire industries.
Sidley and Dingle explain how DeFi works, introduce the organisations and individuals that comprise the new industry, and identify the likely winners and losers in the coming revolution.
252 pages, Paperback
Published January 6, 2022
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About the author
Steven Boykey Sidley
15 books19 followersAward-winning and multi-shortlisted novelist STEVEN BOYKEY SIDLEY has
meandered through careers as an animator, chief technology officer for a
Fortune 500 company, jazz musician, software developer, video game
designer, private equity investor and high technology entrepreneur. He has written 4 novels, with a 5th to be published August 2019. Sidley's writing has been variously compared by reviewers to Philip Roth (Elle), Martin Amis (Rene Montagne, NPR) and John Power (Booklist)
2013 - Winner of UJ Debut Fiction Award for Entanglement (Picador SA)
2013 - Shortlisted for Sunday Times Fiction Prize for Entanglement
2013 - Shortlisted for MNet Literary Award for Entanglement
2014 - Shortlisted for UJ Main Fiction Award for Stepping Out
2015 - Longlisted for Sunday Times Fiction Prize for Imperfect Solo
October 2015 - Imperfect Solo (Belfond translation) selected for Le Grand
Livre du Mois, France's most prestigious national literary book club
2017 - Free Association published by Picador SA and sold to Belfond, France
2018 - Invited to perform Telling Stories, a one-man show, at William
Kentridge Centre for the Less Good Idea
2019 - Launch of Imperfect Solo in the US
2019 - Launch of Leaving Word in SA (August)
meandered through careers as an animator, chief technology officer for a
Fortune 500 company, jazz musician, software developer, video game
designer, private equity investor and high technology entrepreneur. He has written 4 novels, with a 5th to be published August 2019. Sidley's writing has been variously compared by reviewers to Philip Roth (Elle), Martin Amis (Rene Montagne, NPR) and John Power (Booklist)
2013 - Winner of UJ Debut Fiction Award for Entanglement (Picador SA)
2013 - Shortlisted for Sunday Times Fiction Prize for Entanglement
2013 - Shortlisted for MNet Literary Award for Entanglement
2014 - Shortlisted for UJ Main Fiction Award for Stepping Out
2015 - Longlisted for Sunday Times Fiction Prize for Imperfect Solo
October 2015 - Imperfect Solo (Belfond translation) selected for Le Grand
Livre du Mois, France's most prestigious national literary book club
2017 - Free Association published by Picador SA and sold to Belfond, France
2018 - Invited to perform Telling Stories, a one-man show, at William
Kentridge Centre for the Less Good Idea
2019 - Launch of Imperfect Solo in the US
2019 - Launch of Leaving Word in SA (August)
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April 3, 2023
Really enjoyed this read. Almost like a summary of what’s out there in the defi world. Will definitely be looking for more in depth books now, but for a high level awareness this was great.
Style of writing was also very engaging, never felt too dry or too much of an effort to read
Style of writing was also very engaging, never felt too dry or too much of an effort to read
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