Handbook of Digital Currency: Bitcoin, Innovation, Financial Instruments, and Big Data, Second Edition offers readers new ways to learn about subjects outside their specialties and provides authoritative background and tools for those whose primary source of information is journal articles. Encompassing currencies, payment methods, and computer communication protocols, digital currencies are growing in use and importance. The book's comprehensive view of the field covers history, technical, IT, finance, economics, legal, tax, and the regulatory environment. For those coming from different backgrounds with different questions in mind, this new edition 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
- Offers seven new chapters covering such topics as side chains, sharding, privacy protection and CBDC, Libra and the convergence of technology, and much more
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978-0-323-98974-9 (9780323989749)
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Part 1: Digital Currency and Bitcoin1. Introduction to Bitcoin2. Is Bitcoin a Real Currency?3. Bitcoin Mining Technology4. National Cryptocurrencies5. Evaluating the Potential of Alternative Cryptocurrencies6. The Effect of Payment Reversibility on E-commerce and Postal Quality7. Blockchain and Digital Payments8. Counterfeiting in Cryptocurrency: An Emerging Problem9. Emergence, Growth, and Sustainability of Bitcoin10. Cryptocurrencies as Distributed Community Experiments11. Extracting Market-Implied Bitcoin's Risk-Free Interest Rate12. A Microeconomic Analysis of Bitcoin and Illegal ActivitiesPart 2: Finance Markets and Bitcoin13. Legal Issues in Cryptocurrency14. How to Tax Bitcoin?15. Cryptocurrency and Virtual Currency17. Real Regulation of Virtual Currencies19. Advancing Egalitarianism20. How Digital Currencies Will Cascade up to a Global Stable Currency21. Bitcoin-Like Protocols and Innovations22. Blockchain Electronic Vote23. Translating Commons-Based Peer Production Values into Metrics25. What Does Cryptocurrency Mean for the New Economy?26. Bitcoin Past and the Future27. Bitcoin IPO, ETF, and Crowdfunding28. Bitcoin Exchanges
