Distributed ledgers decentralization and smart contracts explained About This Book Get to grips with the underlying technical principles and implementations of blockchain. Build powerful applications using Ethereum to secure transactions and create smart con... Lees meer.

The Age of Decentralization talks about various decentralization technologies including Web3 Decentralized Identity and Decentralized Storage and how they can be incorporated in traditional tech architectures to improve technical and business performance. The Age... Lees meer.

This innovative and original book explores the relationship between blockchain and antitrust highlighting the mutual benefits that stem from cooperation between the two and providing a unique perspective on how law and technology could cooperate. Delivering a legal e... Lees meer.

Is the Internet a vast arena of unrestricted communication and freely exchanged information or a regulated highly structured virtual bureaucracy. In Protocol Alexander Galloway argues that the founding principle of the Net is control not freedom and that the contro... Lees meer.

Questions are asked about whether it is centralization or decentralization that promotes greater efficiency achieves outcomes proves more effective and offers greater accountability. This study answers these questions by exploring decentralization of public higher ed... Lees meer.

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An extraordinaryily well-documented and interesting account of the problems of ethnic change in a big city school system. - Martin Renn Professor of Social Policy MIT and author of the Dilemmas of Reforms and Social Policy Even small town systems nowadays face the c... Lees meer.

In Minority Rules David Lublin eschews the usual approach of shining attention on conflict and instead looks at the representation of minority groups in largely peaceful and democratic countries throughout the world. When we think of minorities--linguistic ethnic... Lees meer.

This study outlines the emerging cultural turn in Peace Studies and provides a critical understanding of the cultural dimension of reconciliation. Taking an anthropological view on decentralization and peacebuilding in Indonesia it sets new standards for an interdiscip... Lees meer.

Blockchain is a distributed database that enables permanent transparent and secure storage of data. The blockchain technology is the backbone of cryptocurrency and it is gaining popularity with people who work in the finance government and arts sectors. This book is... Lees meer.

This fascinating book explains the processes of suburbanization in the context of post-socialist societies transitioning from one system of socio-spatial order to another. Case studies of seven Central and Eastern Europe city regions illuminate growth patterns and key c... Lees meer.

The contributors to this volume address the issues arising from devolution and regional government. This volume addresses the issues arising from the recent devolution referenda by exploring the historical development of the proposals the importance of national and... Lees meer.

Is it always true that decentralization reforms put more power in the hands of governors and mayors. In post-developmental Latin America the surprising answer to this question is no. In fact a variety of outcomes are possible depending largely on who initiates the r... Lees meer.

Cr t urr n i n thing but digit l urr n whi h h been d ign d t impose security nd n n mit in online m n t r tr n ti n . It uses cryptographic n r ti n t both g n r t urr n nd verify transactions. Th n w in are created b a r ll d mining wh r the t... Lees meer.

This definitive study of electoral politics and democratic decentralization in provincial Thailand investigates how democracy is unfolding in the context of emergent capitalism exploring the relationships between the politics of the locality the This definitive stu... Lees meer.