Blockchain in Sports: Insights (Sport Business . Thomas, Thomas, Tierney, Po**

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Blockchain in SportsInsights\nAuthor(s): Stuart Thomas, Kieran D. Tierney, Jason Potts\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032608617, 978-1032608617\nSynopsis\nThis is the first book to examine the impact of blockchain technology on the business of sport. It introduces the fundamentals of blockchain and explores its current and prospective applications in sport, as well as the implications both positive and negative of blockchain for the future of the global sport industry.\n\nThe book opens by explaining how blockchain works, assuming no prior knowledge on the part of the reader, and introduces the most important aspects of blockchain in practice, such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs), as well as new ways of gathering data, such as the Internet of Things, that interact with blockchain infrastructure. The book then examines blockchain in relation to functional areas o.