Originally, I intended on titling this post “should you read Daniel Larimer’s book”, but that went straight out the window after reading the forward which was written by Mike Maloney and the first chapter which is the introduction.. This is in no way a review or endorsement of the book, I have read only chapter one so I can’t provide a detailed review of it. This is more of a book recommendation to my dear hive book club community. So I would be writing a brief recommendation on my limited knowledge of the book, and hopefully when I am done with it, I would write a proper book review and also if you have read this book, it would be great to know what you think down in the comment section.
Why am I recommending this book?
There are various reasons why, but I’d talk about just a few of them. Well we all know Dan Larimer, and if you don’t, he is the co-founder of Bitshares and Steemit, and hive being the hard fork of the later. Dan happens to be a very intelligent person with an acute problem solving skill; his skill evident in is creation of delegated-proof-of-stake (Dpos) consensus model in which elected delegates validate transactions and create blocks; a groundbreaking creation.
He seem to have that one dream we all have, a peaceful and prosperous society where power is with the people not a single centralized government. This is exactly what the blockchain technology is all about, and the benefit of it is immense. I have always wondered how it would be if blockchain technology is integrated into various sectors of the society, like education for data storage, electoral system for free and fair election, etc. When I came across some of his ideologies in his introductory chapter, I knew I wanted to read this.
In his copyright page, he makes an argument against intellectual monopoly. His idea of a free society where nothing is owned by one, but by all is further emphasized. He went further to state that the use of his book or ideas externally is welcome, with appropriate credit to the author of course.
For various or otherwise personal reasons, you might not be interested in this book but, I guarantee certain chapters of the book might interest you. Ones like transforming yourself, true democracy, transforming society, financial integrity etc.
Ultimately, the book is available for free download through this link. Goes to show you that he practices what he preaches, i.e. no to Intellectual monopoly.
Again, this is not an endorsement or anything; this is just me suggesting a book worth reading to you. Also, in his introductory chapter, he makes an argument that arouses my interest even more in his book. He reminded the reader the need to always have an open mind when reading anything. The human mind is naturally biased, hence, new and contradicting opinions are almost always automatically rejected, but a conscious effort to allow yourself think, that all you know or have ever learned before now is wrong, would help you have a clear mind when making decisions and taking in new ideas.
I have nothing else to tell you, so off I go to finish this book.
