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Handbook of Digital Currency
Bitcoin, Innovation, Financial Instruments, and Big Data
1st Edition - April 29, 2015
Hardback ISBN:9780128021170
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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… Read more
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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
Winner of the 2015 "Outstanding Business Reference Source" by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA)
Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals working in disciplines associated with virtual currencies, including financial institutions, computer technology, regulatory and taxation agencies, and financial markets.
Dedication
Preface and Acknowledgments
Part 1: Digital Currency and Bitcoin
Section One: Bitcoin and Alternative Cryptocurrencies
Chapter 1: Introduction to Bitcoin
Abstract
Acknowledgments
1.1 The next generation of money and payments
1.2 Digital currency as alternative currency
1.3 Cryptocurrency
1.4 General features of bitcoin
1.5 Benefits and risks
1.6 Impact of the digital currency revolution
1.7 Conditions for a successful cryptocurrency
1.8 Future prospects and conclusion
Chapter 2: Is Bitcoin a Real Currency? An Economic Appraisal
Abstract
Acknowledgments
2.1 Introduction
2.2 History and background of bitcoin
2.3 Bitcoin’s weaknesses as a currency
2.4 Conclusion: obstacles faced by bitcoin
Chapter 3: Bitcoin Mining Technology
Abstract
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Technology behind bitcoin
3.3 Mining process
3.4 Mining possibilities
3.5 Mining pools
3.6 Threats to mining
3.7 Recent advancements
3.8 Conclusion
Chapter 4: National Cryptocurrencies
Abstract
4.1 The first wave
4.2 The future of national cryptocurrency
4.3 Conclusion
Chapter 5: Evaluating the Potential of Alternative Cryptocurrencies
Abstract
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Different types of altcoins
5.3 Launching an altcoin
5.4 Data collection and altcoin evaluation strategy
5.5 Altcoin evaluation results
5.6 Empirical research using social network data
5.7 Empirical analysis using time series and cross-section data
5.8 Conclusion
Appendix Empirical analysis of bitcoin and altcoins
Key factors’ analysis
Section Two: E-Payment and Security
Chapter 6: The Effect of Payment Reversibility on E-commerce and Postal Quality
Abstract
6.1 Introduction
6.2 The model
6.3 Basic case
6.4 Results with postal quality
6.5 Conclusion
Chapter 7: Blockchain and Digital Payments: An Institutionalist Analysis of Cryptocurrencies
Abstract
Acknowledgments
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Definition
7.3 The structure and the incentives behind the supply and demand of cryptocurrencies
7.4 Understanding institutional change
7.5 The ceremonial encapsulation of cryptocurrencies in the established model of regulation for digital payments
7.6 Cryptocurrencies as mature payment technologies: challenges in the near future
7.7 Conclusions
Chapter 8: Counterfeiting in Cryptocurrency: An Emerging Problem
Abstract
8.1 Chapter overview
8.2 Introduction: cryptocurrency has virtually evolved from hard currency
8.3 The basic function of currency: a medium of exchange
8.4 Counterfeiting: methods, motivation, and opportunities
8.5 The global anticounterfeiting initiative
8.6 Deterring counterfeiting in the future
8.7 Summary
Section Three: Big Data and Network Effect
Chapter 9: Emergence, Growth, and Sustainability of Bitcoin: The Network Economics Perspective
Abstract
9.1 Network economics and cryptocurrencies
9.2 Sustainability of a cryptocurrency network
9.3 Discussion/Conclusion
Chapter 10: Cryptocurrencies as Distributed Community Experiments
Abstract
10.1 Introduction
10.2 From bitcoin as single cryptocurrency to an ecosystem of cryptocurrencies
10.3 Altcoins as evolutionary problem solving and “proof of concepts”
10.4 Overview of the main critique and discourse on cryptocurrencies