The Truth Machine

Paul Vigna is a Wall Street Journal markets reporter who focuses on equities and the economy. He is a MoneyBeat columnist and anchor. Previously a writer and editor for DowJones Newswires' MarketTalk column, he has appeared on Fox Business Network, CNN, BBC, and the John Batchelor radio show. He has been interviewed by Bitcoin magazine and been on the Bitcoins & Gravy podcast, and he has 20 years of media experience in total.

Michael J. Casey is a Wall Street Journal columnist who covers global finance in his "Horizons" column. He contributes frequently to the Journal's MoneyBeat blog and co-writes the daily "BitBeat" with Paul Vigna.

Big banks have risen in size and clout. Privacy only exists until the next hack. Credit card fraud is a reality. Many of the "legacy systems" that were once intended to make our lives easier and our economy more efficient are no longer adequate. However, there is a way out of all of this: the blockchain, a new type of operating system with the potential to change broad sections of our economy.

Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna describe how blockchain may restore personal sovereignty over our data, assets, and identities, provide billions of excluded people access to the global economy, and shift the balance of power to restore society's faith in itself in The Truth Machine. They reveal the disruption it will cause in businesses such as finance, technology, law, and shipping.

Casey and Vigna highlight the difficulty of replacing trusted (and not-so-trusted) institutions on which we've relied for millennia with a new approach that circumvents them. The Truth Machine demonstrates the potential for empowerment when self-interested middlemen give way to the transparency of blockchain, while also showing the job losses, assertion of special interests, and threat to social cohesiveness that will accompany this transformation. Casey and Vigna demonstrate why we all must care about the course that blockchain technology takes, propelling mankind forward rather than backward, using the same balanced perspective they provided to The Age of Cryptocurrency.

Author: Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna

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