Format:
1 Online-Ressource (223 Seiten)
Edition:
2nd ed
ISBN:
9783030889319
Note:
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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Means of Exchange: Ever-Present Competition -- 2.1 The Medium of Exchange-Historical Overview -- 2.2 What Roles Does Money Serve? -- 2.3 Competing Money -- 2.3.1 Coexistence Is Costly -- 2.3.2 Network Effects -- 2.3.3 The Difficulty of Introducing a New Currency: Excess Inertia -- 2.3.4 Coexistence of Various Currencies -- 3 Platform-Based Currencies -- 3.1 Special Currencies of the Traditional World -- 3.2 Platform-Based Currencies in the Digital Era -- 3.2.1 Online Video Games-The Case World of Warcraft Gold -- 3.2.2 Virtual Worlds and Linden Dollars -- 3.2.3 Social Networks and Facebook Credits -- 3.2.4 Promotion Platforms and Amazon Coin -- 3.3 Conclusion -- 3.4 Are Restricted Currencies Really Currencies? -- 4 Bitcoin and Arrival of Cryptocurrencies -- 4.1 The Double-Spending Problem -- 4.2 A Brief Overview of Bitcoin's Design -- 4.3 Not the First One-Predecessors of Bitcoin -- 4.4 New Challenges Created by Bitcoin Design -- 4.4.1 Mining Arms Race and Electricity Consumption -- 4.4.2 Mining Pools and Centralization Propensity -- 4.4.3 Threat of Attacks -- 4.4.4 Deflationary Pressure -- 4.4.5 Governance -- 4.5 How Do bitcoin's Attributes Compare to Earlier Money? -- 5 The Rich Landscape of Crypto -- 5.1 Improving Currency Functionality -- 5.2 Proof-of-Stake -- 5.3 Privacy Coins -- 5.4 Proliferation and Eventual Decline of Altcoins -- 5.5 The Emergence of Tokens -- 5.6 Stablecoins -- 5.7 Trading Crypto -- 6 Smart Contracts and Blockchain -- 6.1 The Rise of Ethereum -- 6.1.1 History -- 6.1.2 Ethereum Is "Different" -- 6.2 Smart Contracts -- 6.2.1 Smart Contracts on Ethereum -- 6.2.2 What Do Smart Contracts Need a Blockchain For? -- 6.3 Tokens -- 6.3.1 What Are Tokens? -- 6.3.2 Use of Tokens -- 6.4 Initial Coin Offering -- 6.5 Non-fungible Tokens
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6.5.1 NFTs and Smart Contracts Do Not Solve Digital Art Ownership Problems -- 6.5.2 New Markets Enabled by NFTs -- 6.6 Dapps -- 6.7 Blockchain Governance, Dapp Governance, and Smart Contracts -- 7 Enterprise Blockchains -- 7.1 Distributed Database: What Is It and What For? -- 7.2 Limitation of Bitcoin's Blockchain for Enterprise Use -- 7.3 Consensus for Permissioned Distributed Systems -- 7.4 Enterprise Blockchain Solutions -- 7.5 Government Applications -- 8 Future Full of Possibilities -- References -- Index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Halaburda, Hanna Beyond Bitcoin Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 ISBN 9783030889302
Language:
English
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