Bit by Bit: How P2P Is Freeing the World argues that today's emergent technology is about more than new and cool toys. Jeffrey Tucker, CLO of Liberty.me and Distinguished Fellow of the Foundation for Economic Education, argues that peer-to-peer technology is forging a new and brighter social, economic, and political order. <br /><br />People tend to look at innovations in isolation. Here is my new e-reader. Here is an app I like. Here is my new mobile device and computer. Even bitcoin is routinely analyzed and explained in terms of its properties as an alternative to national currencies, as if there were no more than that at stake.<br /><br />But actually there is a historical trajectory at work here, one that we can trace through its logic, implementation, and spread. It’s the same logic that led from the dial phone at the county store, operated by people pulling and plugging in wires, to the wireless smartphone in your pocket that contains the whole store of human knowledge. It’s all about technology in the service of individuation.<br /><br />Once you understand the driving ethos — voluntarism, creativity, networks, individual initiative — you can see the outlines of a new social structure emerging within our time, an order that defies a century of top-down planning and nation-state restrictionism.<br /><br />It is coming about not because of political reform. It is not any one person’s creation. It is not happening because a group of elite intellectuals advocated it. The new world is emerging organically, and messily, from the ground up, as an extension of unrelenting creativity and experimentation. In the end, it is emerging out of an anarchist order that no one in particular controls and no one in particular can fully understand.<br /><br />"The building of universal prosperity is a process that unfolds bit by bit through decentralized decision making and improvements at the margin through trial-and-error. To continue this process, we need understanding, patience, and dreams. Jeffrey Tucker’s book is an excellent guide to all three.” ~ Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com, from the introduction. <br /><br />“In Bitcoin’s brief existence Jeffrey Tucker has become one of its leading proponents. In this book we can see exactly why. Many people think of bitcoin as just money, but Mr. Tucker is able to explain, in a way that is easily understandable by all, the tsunami of innovation that bitcoin is about to release upon the world.” ~ Roger Ver, Bitcoin investor, from the Foreword

全面深入揭秘“黑暗版淘宝”暗网的幕后世界和操纵者
现实中所有的罪恶，在暗网中，都是明码标价的商品。
暗杀、色情、恋童癖、比特币犯罪、毒品交易……
TED演讲、谷歌特邀专家、英国智库网络专家杰米•巴特利特代表作！
1、 被大家戏称为“黑暗版淘宝”的暗网究竟是什么？微信猎奇 文不能告诉你的真相都在这里了！
2、 因章莹颖一案、Facebook信息泄露危机而被国人所知的暗网里，还隐藏着暗杀市场、色情直播、毒品买卖、比特币犯罪……人世间所有的罪恶，在暗网中，都是明码标价的商品！
3、 似乎绝对自由、不受限制的网络世界，正是暴露人性阴暗面的最佳温床！在暗网中，你只会怪自己对于犯罪的想象力太弱！
4、 受邀在TED演讲、谷歌公司特邀专家、英国德莫斯（Demos）智库网络社群专家杰米•巴特利特耗时4年，采访上百人，只为掀开暗网的神秘面纱。本书为全球每一位网民而写！教你认识暗网，远离暗网，珍爱生活！
5、 独立报、泰晤士报、每日邮报、美国国家电台高度推荐！关于暗网，我们知道得太少，而它已经渐渐侵入到我们的生活中。
6、 亚马逊高分好评、美国国家广播电台2015年度最佳好书、华盛顿邮报非虚构类重点选书。Goodreads网站上近3000名读者短评，近400名读者长评……
《暗网》是一本深入全面揭秘“暗网”这个神秘世界的著作，问世两年来，受到英国乃至全球各大媒体的强烈关注和好评。
普通人与暗网的世界有多远？
只有一个洋葱服务器的距离。
进入暗网，是扑面而来的黑暗和罪恶：暗杀市场、人肉搜索、比特币犯罪、隐秘毒品交易、色情直播、自杀联盟……
作者杰米•巴特利特，拥有丰富的社群媒体经验，耗时4年，在暗网上结识背后的“潜伏者”，并设法约他们在线下见面，进行长时间的深入访谈。其中有执拗顽固的种族主义者、污力十足的成人色情女主播、冷漠冰山的比特币犯罪天才……他们的故事都与暗网息息相关。作者为了亲身体验，甚至还在暗网上尝试购买了毒品和各种违禁品。
潜伏在暗网背后的人们，常常被妖魔化，通过与他们的亲身接触，作者也在思考过度自由的网络，会使人在现实生活中和网络中变得有多么矛盾、不同。书中也讨论了网络伦理等尖锐问题。

'Bitcoin is one of the most important innovations of our time - it will transform the way we do business. Dominic Frisby has written a great account. Read it and glimpse into the future' -Sir Richard Branson In 2008, while the world was busy panicking about the global financial crisis, a computer programmer called Satoshi Nakamoto posted a message on an out-of-the-way mailing list. 'I've been working on a new electronic cash system, ' he said. 'It might make sense to get some just in case it catches on.' Nobody seemed to care. But what he had programmed would become the world's most famous alternative currency: Bitcoin. Economists, anarchists, speculators, computer coders, libertarians, criminals and entrepreneurs were inspired across the world. Early adopters would make a return two million times larger than their investment. Now it seems that Bitcoin will do to banking and finance what email did to the postal service and what the internet did to publishing: destroy old monopolies and create opportunities for the masses. Some even suggest that the technology behind Bitcoin will usurp our Western systems of representative democracy. In this gripping book, Dominic Frisby sets out to solve the mystery surrounding the identity of Bitcoin's secretive creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. He shows how Bitcoin will change the world. And, perhaps most importantly of all, he does something nobody else has hitherto been able to do: he explains in layman's language exactly how it works. 'The book's outstanding, but the story it tells is even better.' -Matt Ridley, The Times 'In this highly readable yet technically accomplished book, Dominic Frisby makes crypto currencies crystal clear. Read it, or fail to understand possibly the most important financial innovation of our time.' -Liam Halligan, Sunday Telegraph 'Despite having an MSc in Computer Science and spending over ten years studying monetary theory, I ignored Bitcoin as hype for too long. You shouldn't. Read Dominic's thrilling book and discover the next big thing.' -Steve Baker, MP