Ethereum Classic: Decentralized Blockchain Network for Transparent Smart Contracts and Immutable Transactions

Chapters Brief Overview:

1: Ethereum Classic: Traces the roots of Ethereum Classic and its ideological stand on immutability.

2: Bitcoin Cash: Examines Bitcoin Cash’s origin, showcasing blockchainbased consensus in political terms.

3: SegWit: Highlights SegWit's role in technical governance and collective decisionmaking in blockchain.

4: Smart contract: Explores selfexecuting contracts as new instruments of digital law and authority.

5: Blockchain: Provides foundational insights into blockchain’s structure as a model of distributed power.

6: Fork (blockchain): Discusses forks as expressions of political divergence within decentralized systems.

7: Privacy and blockchain: Investigates privacy as a political right and its preservation in blockchain networks.

8: Ethereum: Reviews Ethereum’s evolution, contrasting its vision with Ethereum Classic’s immutability ethos.

9: Monero: Illustrates Monero’s focus on anonymity as a challenge to centralized surveillance structures.

10: Litecoin: Looks at Litecoin's innovations as decentralized policy experimentation within blockchain.

11: Decentralized autonomous organization: Explores DAOs as digital microstates governed by code.

12: Gavin Wood: Examines Wood’s role in shaping blockchain philosophies and decentralized tech paradigms.

13: Doublespending: Analyzes the doublespending problem as a challenge to trust in digital economics.

14: Solidity: Introduces the Solidity language as a tool to encode governance and digital political will.

15: The DAO: Investigates The DAO’s rise and fall, revealing blockchain governance in crisis and repair.

16: Cryptocurrency wallet: Describes wallets as digital identities and tools for individual financial agency.

17: Vitalik Buterin: Highlights Buterin’s vision and influence on blockchain’s social and political role.

18: Cryptocurrency: Frames cryptocurrency as a decentralized alternative to statecontrolled financial systems.

19: Decentralized application: Shows how DApps reshape usersovereignty and information control.

20: Bitcoin: Charts Bitcoin’s role as the genesis of blockchain’s economic and ideological revolution.

21: Proof of stake: Analyzes PoS as a consensus model with implicit politicaleconomic tradeoffs.

This book is not just a technical overview; it’s a guide for professionals, students, and hobbyists alike who seek to understand how blockchain challenges traditional power structures. The ideas within serve as a lens to study authority, participation, and governance in the digital age.