
Handbook of Digital Currency
Bitcoin, Innovation, Financial Instruments, and Big Data
Description
Key Features
- 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
Readership
Table of Contents
Part 1: Digital Currency and Bitcoin
1. Introduction to Bitcoin
2. Is Bitcoin a Real Currency?
3. Bitcoin Mining Technology
4. National Cryptocurrencies
5. Evaluating the Potential of Alternative Cryptocurrencies
6. The Effect of Payment Reversibility on E-commerce and Postal Quality
7. Blockchain and Digital Payments
8. Counterfeiting in Cryptocurrency: An Emerging Problem
9. Emergence, Growth, and Sustainability of Bitcoin
10. Cryptocurrencies as Distributed Community Experiments
11. Extracting Market-Implied Bitcoin's Risk-Free Interest Rate
12. A Microeconomic Analysis of Bitcoin and Illegal ActivitiesPart 2: Finance Markets and Bitcoin
13. Legal Issues in Cryptocurrency
14. How to Tax Bitcoin?
15. Cryptocurrency and Virtual Currency
17. Real Regulation of Virtual Currencies
19. Advancing Egalitarianism
20. How Digital Currencies Will Cascade up to a Global Stable Currency
21. Bitcoin-Like Protocols and Innovations
22. Blockchain Electronic Vote
23. Translating Commons-Based Peer Production Values into Metrics
25. What Does Cryptocurrency Mean for the New Economy?
26. Bitcoin Past and the Future
27. Bitcoin IPO, ETF, and Crowdfunding
28. Bitcoin Exchanges
Product details
- No. of pages: 712
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2023
- Published: January 1, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323989732
About the Editor
David Lee Kuo Chuen
