Before Bitcoin made millionaires, before NFTs broke the internet, a small group of cryptographers dreamed of money governments couldnt control. This is their storyand everything that came after.This visually rich narrative traces blockchain technology from its ideological roots in 1980s cypherpunk communities through todays multi-trillion dollar Web3 ecosystem. Youll discover the people, ideas, failures, and breakthroughs that transformed obscure cryptography into technology reshaping finance, art, governance, and identity.Journey through defining moments: the cryptography breakthroughs that made digital scarcity possible, Satoshi Nakamotos mysterious Bitcoin whitepaper and disappearance, early adopters buying pizza for 10,000 Bitcoin, Ethereums launch enabling programmable money, the ICO boom and bust, DeFi summer that rebuilt finance, NFT mania that confused the world, and DAO experiments in decentralized governance.Meet the visionaries and villains: cypherpunks who laid ideological foundations, developers who coded impossible ideas into reality, entrepreneurs who built exchanges and platforms, scammers who ran billion-dollar frauds, regulators struggling to contain innovation, and ordinary people whose lives changed through cryptocurrency adoption.
A Série Universitária foi desenvolvida pelo Senac São Paulo com o intuito de preparar profissionais para o mercado de trabalho. Os títulos abrangem diversas áreas, abordando desde conhecimentos teóri
The adoption of new technological paradigms has recently shifted part of the scholarship on religions towards new research questions. Such a new condition stimulates scholarly curiosity which needs to be effective and fertile matching with technological infrastructures and access to physical and digital sources and research means. ITSERR (Italian Strengthening of the ESFRI RI RESILIENCE) is a research project launched in 2022 with the goal of enhancing RESILIENCE, the European research infrastructure for the study of religions. Primary goal is to meet the evolving needs of its multidisciplinary scientific community and support the development of the national node of RESILIENCE. With the endorsement of new technological paradigms, the project is willing to play a pivotal role in enriching the diversity, quality and innovation of knowledge produced by the community of scholars investigating religions. The volume presents the first research and methodological outcomes achieved by the ITSERR team, composed of researchers in the humanities and information technologies.