Handbook of Digital Currency: Bitcoin, Innovation, Financial Instruments, and Big Data
- 12h 5m
- David Lee Kuo Chuen (ed)
- Elsevier Science and Technology Books, Inc.
- 2015
Incorporating currencies, payment methods, and protocols that computers use to talk to each other, digital currencies are poised to grow in use and importance. The Handbook of Digital Currency gives readers a way to learn about subjects outside their specialties and provides authoritative background and tools for those whose primary source of information is journal articles. Taking a cross-country perspective, its comprehensive view of the field includes history, technicality, IT, finance, economics, legal, tax and regulatory environment. For those who come from different backgrounds with different questions in mind, The Handbook of Digital Currency is an essential starting point.
- Discusses all major strategies and tactics associated with digital currencies, their uses, and their regulations
- Presents future scenarios for the growth of digital currencies
- Written for regulators, crime prevention units, tax authorities, entrepreneurs, micro-financiers, micro-payment businesses, cryptography experts, software developers, venture capitalists, hedge fund managers, hardware manufacturers, credit card providers, money changers, remittance service providers, exchanges, and academics
In this Book
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Introduction to Bitcoin
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Is Bitcoin a Real Currency? An Economic Appraisal
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Bitcoin Mining Technology
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National Cryptocurrencies
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Evaluating the Potential of Alternative Cryptocurrencies
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The Effect of Payment Reversibility on E-commerce and Postal Quality
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Blockchain and Digital Payments—An Institutionalist Analysis of Cryptocurrencies
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Counterfeiting in Cryptocurrency—An Emerging Problem
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Emergence, Growth, and Sustainability of Bitcoin—The Network Economics Perspective
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Cryptocurrencies as Distributed Community Experiments
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Extracting Market-Implied Bitcoin's Risk-Free Interest Rate
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A Microeconomic Analysis of Bitcoin and Illegal Activities
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Legal Issues in Cryptocurrency
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How to Tax Bitcoin?
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Cryptocurrency and Virtual Currency—Corruption and Money Laundering/Terrorism Financing Risks?
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A Light Touch of Regulation for Virtual Currencies
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Real Regulation of Virtual Currencies
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A Facilitative Model for Cryptocurrency Regulation in Singapore
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Advancing Egalitarianism
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How Digital Currencies Will Cascade up to a Global Stable Currency—The Fundamental Framework for the Money of the Future
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Bitcoin-like Protocols and Innovations
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Blockchain Electronic Vote
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Translating Commons-Based Peer Production Values into Metrics—Toward Commons-Based Cryptocurrencies
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The Confluence of Bitcoin and the Global Sharing Economy
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What Does Cryptocurrency Mean for the New Economy?
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Bitcoin—A Look at the past and the Future
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Bitcoin IPO, ETF, and Crowdfunding
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Bitcoin Exchanges
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