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Beckmann and Carbone say that the system could allow battery owners to set the rules for how the battery participates in the energy exchange. But the engineers say that communities also can set up the system to maximize the amount of renewable energy available. It uses a computer originally designed to mine the Ethereum cryptocurrency as its brain.

The team has big hopes for blockchain. Blockchain is this type of technology that comes in waves. It will happen, absolutely, whether we are there to take advantage of it or not.

Entries would be transparent, time-stamped and could be used as evidence in court or as a basis to receive micro-payments for usage. Globally, a blockchain ledger of physical assets could eradicate fraud and corruption in countries where property titles or other documents are collected and controlled, sometimes stolen, by governments or bureaucrats.

Clearly, not only will traditional intermediaries be eliminated — from banks to stock markets, lawyers, accountants and search or social media giants — but a fairer organizing principle will be established online.

This is heady and important stuff, and the Tapscotts have done a masterful job explaining how it all works as well as why this is, truly, another revolution.

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