Umfang:
1 Online Ressource (xxiv, 588 pages)
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Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:
9780128023518
Inhalt:
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 regulationsPresents future scenarios for the growth of digital currenciesWritten 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.
Inhalt:
Front Cover -- Handbook of Digital Currency: Bitcoin, Innovation, Financial Instruments, and Big Data -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Digital Currency and Bitcoin -- Section One: Bitcoin and Alternative Cryptocurrencies -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Bitcoin -- 1.1. The Next Generation of Money and Payments -- 1.2. Digital Currency as Alternative Currency -- 1.2.1. ``Digital´´ versus ``virtual´´ -- 1.2.2. Classifying alternative currencies -- 1.2.3. Why alternative currencies -- 1.3. Cryptocurrency -- 1.3.1. The nature of cryptocurrency -- 1.3.2. The beginning: eCash -- 1.3.3. Pioneering Internet payments with digital gold -- 1.3.4. Revival of cryptocurrency -- 1.3.5. The rise of Bitcoin -- 1.4. General Features of Bitcoin -- 1.4.1. Network and digital currency -- 1.4.2. Genesis and decentralized control -- 1.4.3. How Bitcoin works -- 1.4.4. Buying and storing bitcoins -- 1.4.5. Mining to create new bitcoins and process transactions -- 1.4.6. Security and cryptography -- 1.4.7. Pseudoanonymity -- 1.5. Benefits and Risks -- 1.5.1. Freedom of payments -- 1.5.2. Merchant benefits -- 1.5.3. User control -- 1.5.4. Platform for further innovation -- 1.5.5. Internal change and volatility -- 1.5.6. Facilitation of criminal activity -- 1.5.7. Legal regulatory attitude -- 1.5.8. Economic risk -- 1.6. Impact of the Digital Currency Revolution -- 1.7. Conditions for a Successful Cryptocurrency -- 1.7.1. Ecosystem -- 1.7.2. Incentives -- 1.7.3. Identification -- 1.8. Future Prospects and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Is Bitcoin a Real Currency? An Economic Appraisal -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. History and Background of Bitcoin -- 2.3. Bitcoins Weaknesses as a Currency -- 2.3.1. Medium of exchange -- 2.3.2. Unit of account -- 2.3.3. Store of value.
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780128021170
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780128021170
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Handbook of digital currency Amsterdam : Elsevier, Academic Press, 2015 ISBN 0128021179
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780128021170
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Schlagwort(e):
Währung
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Digitalisierung
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Innovation
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Bitcoin
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Währung
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Digitalisierung
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Innovation
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Bitcoin
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