Handbook of Digital Currency: Bitcoin, Innovation, Financial Instruments, and Big Data

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 INDICE: 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 Activities Part 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

• ISBN: 978-0-323-98973-2
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 712
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2023
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés