How the blockchain--a system built on foundations of mutual mistrust--can become trustworthy.

Series' Editor's Introduction ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: The Parable of the Tree 1 
I A Revolution in Nine Pages
1 The Trust Challenge 17
2 Satoshi's Solution 33
3 More than Money 53
4 Why Blockchain? 71
II Ledgers Meet Law
5 Unpacking Blockchain Trust 95
6 What Could Possible Go Wrong? 113
7 Blockchain Governance 133
8 Blockchain As/And Law 149
9 We're from the Government, and We're Here to Help 175
III Building the Decentralized Future
10 Connecting the Legal and the Technical 203
11 An Unpredictable Uncertainty 225
12 Conclusion 241
Notes 247
Index 305