Charles E. Johnson

Introducing BlackChain: How the African-Indigenous diaspora can leverage blockchain to build sustainable, sovereign wealth across generations (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Introducing BlackChain is both a blueprint and a manifesto for economic sovereignty across the African and Indigenous diasporas. At its heart, it reimagines blockchain not as a speculative tool but as a set of value rails, infrastructure that channels money into communities, keeps it circulating locally, and reinvests it transparently for the benefit of all. Just as traditional railways once carried resources across nations, BlackChain's digital rails move value with purpose: every remittance, purchase, or credentialed transaction travels securely along the chain, with a portion automatically allocated to a shared community treasury.

The book begins by defining this concept of value rails and connecting it to history. Inspired by the cooperative spirit of Black Wall Street and Indigenous mutual aid systems, BlackChain is presented as a 21st-century mechanism to prevent wealth leakage from diasporic communities. Instead of capital draining away through banks, middlemen, or predatory fees, BlackChain captures and recycles it into education, small businesses, cultural preservation, and technology upgrades.

Central to the model is Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) with Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs). These tools allow individuals to own their data, prove qualifications, and consent to transactions without exposing personal information. Minors can participate through guardianship models, ensuring inclusion across generations. By weaving identity into finance, BlackChain makes trust visible while preserving privacy.

The book also explains the mechanics of on-ramps and off-ramps, how community members move between cash, mobile money, or bank accounts and the BlackChain ecosystem. Through these gateways, diaspora remittances become direct investments into local services, and community members can still withdraw funds as fiat when needed. This bridge between traditional and digital finance is what makes BlackChain practical and user-friendly.

Beyond infrastructure, Introducing BlackChain offers a step-by-step implementation roadmap. Ten integration steps, baseline discovery, governance setup, identity flow, on/off-ramps, minimum viable rails, safeguards, literacy, scale-up, change management, and sustainability, are laid out as mini-guides for communities, educators, and leaders. Templates for charters, RASCI charts, data policies, grant proposals, and risk registers transform abstract vision into concrete action.

A key innovation is the community treasury, governed through multi-signature wallets or DAOs. This transparent, participatory fund distributes resources toward grassroots initiatives, with safeguards such as spending limits and collective approvals. Over time, the treasury becomes a self-sustaining engine of development, accountable to the very people it serves.

Education and youth empowerment are woven throughout. Early childhood programs introduce trust, sharing, and fairness through story-based curricula; schools and parents receive toolkits; teens access apprenticeships, hack clubs, and mentorship through diaspora professionals. Micro-credentials and digital badges certify their growth, helping them build portable, blockchain-verified learning records.

Ultimately, the book argues that sovereign wealth is not abstract. It is created each time value enters the community, circulates locally, and is recorded transparently for shared benefit. BlackChain redefines wealth as cultural, social, and financial capital that belongs to the people.

The message is simple yet powerful: a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. By strengthening every link, parents, youth, educators, MSMEs, diaspora networks, the entire chain of communities can rise together. Introducing BlackChain provides both the vision and the practical tools to make that rise inevitable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: CHANAY Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798999798961
• Artikelnr.: 75431301

Autorenporträt

Charles Johnson is a builder-coach with three decades in sourcing, procurement, and supplier governance, known for turning big ideas into everyday operating discipline. An inventor and systems thinker, he holds U.S. Patent No. 8,517,742 (Labor Resource Testing System and Method), awarded for technology that assesses skills and aligns talent with real-world project needs. He also serves as Chairperson & Executive Director of the C.A.S.T.N.E.T. International Chamber of Commerce, where he mobilizes global partners to open trade routes and de-risk cross-border projects, and as the founder of BidLock , a peer-to-peer source-to-pay SaaS platform designed to help small and disadvantaged businesses scale.

As an author, his writing grew out of that long arc of experience. After thirty years of wins, wipeouts, and rebuilds, professionally and personally, Charles saw the same pattern repeat: setbacks are tuition, if you know how to extract the lesson quickly and move forward with integrity. Intelligent Failure distills the frameworks he has tested under pressure: how to debrief without blame, design safe-to-fail experiments, protect what must not break, and align work with values so progress is sustainable at home and at the office. He wrote it for rising leaders and seasoned operators who are tired of perfection theater and ready for a playbook that turns inevitable missteps into momentum. In Charles's hands, failure becomes a disciplined practice, one that helps readers learn, heal, and grow into the kind of people others trust when the stakes are high.