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Contents: Preface -- Introduction: The decentralization -- Part 1 a common ambition -- 1. Blockchain: From ideology to … implementation -- 2. Blockchain's toolbox -- 3. Blockchain and darwin -- 4. Decentralization? -- 5. Comes antitrust: The paradox … -- Part 2 best frenemies? -- 6. The theory of the firm -- 7. The theory of granularity -- 8. Collusion on blockchain -- 9 …