Format:
1 Online-Ressource (286 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781668002346
Note:
Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Helpful Lists You'll Find Inside: The Investments, Products, Services, and Companies in the Blockchain and Digital Assets World -- Foreword -- Welcome -- Let's Use the Right Words -- Disclosure -- Now, You're Ready to Begin! -- Part One: Understanding the Technology -- Chapter 1: The Four Most Transformative Innovations in the History of Commerce -- Chapter 2: Why Blockchain Is So Transformative -- The Features of Blockchain -- The Benefits of Blockchain -- Consumer Purchases -- Remittances -- Corporate Financing -- Foreign Trade -- Programmable Money, aka Smart Contracts -- Micropayments -- Supply Chain Management -- Self-Sovereign Identity -- The Most Important Benefit and Use of All -- Chapter 3: How Blockchain-and Bitcoin-Came to Be -- The Problem of Double Presentment -- The Introduction of Bitcoin -- What Motivated Satoshi to Fix That Banking Problem by Inventing Bitcoin -- Chapter 4: How Blockchain Works -- Public and Private Keys -- Public vs. Private Blockchains -- Part Two: Understanding Bitcoin and Other Digital Assets -- Chapter 5: How Bitcoin Works -- Where Is Bitcoin Stored? -- How Do We Know That Data on the Nodes Are Authentic? -- Why Would Anyone Bother to Authenticate My Data? -- Mining -- Proof of Work vs. Proof of Stake -- How Many Bitcoins Will Be Created? -- Types of Wallets -- The First Known Commercial Use of Bitcoin -- Other Ways to Receive Coins -- Forks -- Airdrops -- Concerns About Bitcoin's Involvement with Illicit Activity -- Concerns About Bitcoin Mining's Impact on the Environment -- Emissions, Not Energy -- Chapter 6: Who Uses Bitcoin? -- Who Owns Bitcoin? -- Chapter 7: Why Are There So Many Coins? -- The Digital Asset Universe -- Base Layer Protocols -- Second Layer Protocols -- Financial Products and Services -- Nonfinancial Applications and Services
,
Chapter 8: Are Digital Assets Money? -- What Is Money? -- Defining Money -- Defining Currency -- A Better Digital Currency Than Bitcoin -- Stablecoins -- Central Bank Digital Currencies -- The Facebook Threat -- Do CBDCs Threaten Bitcoin? -- Gold vs. Bitcoin -- Chapter 9: Tokens -- Utility Tokens -- Security Tokens -- Governance Tokens -- Non-Fungible Tokens -- Not Just a Silly Game -- Simple Agreement for Future Tokens -- Chapter 10: Decentralized Finance, aka DeFi -- Oracles -- Chapter 11: Valuation and Pricing of Bitcoin and Other Digital Assets -- Cost Approach -- Market Approach -- Discounted Cash Flow -- Market Substitute and Utility Value -- The Velocity of Money -- Network Value -- NVT Ratio -- Stock-to-Flow Ratio -- Speculative Value -- Part Three: Investing in Digital Assets -- Chapter 12: Is It Too Late to Buy Bitcoin? -- Chapter 13: The Risks of Investing in Digital Assets -- Market Manipulation -- Business and Commercial Failure -- Technological Obsolescence -- Consumer/Investor Demand -- Regulatory Intervention -- 51% Attack -- Advances in Quantum Computing -- Rogue Custodians -- Lost Passwords, Compromised Wallets, and Hijacked SIM Cards -- Fat-Fingered Trades -- Plain Ole Everyday Scams -- Chapter 14: The Risks Are the Reason for Investing in Digital Assets -- Modern Portfolio Theory -- Sharpe Ratio -- Sortino Ratio -- Standard Deviation -- Max Drawdown -- Chapter 15: How Much of Your Portfolio to Place into Digital Assets -- Ric Edelman's 1% Digital Assets Allocation Strategy -- The Right Allocation for You -- Chapter 16: Choosing the Right Digital Assets for Your Portfolio -- Mining the Coins -- Investing in the Miners -- Buying Coins and Tokens -- Digital Assets Exchanges -- Choosing an Exchange -- Custodians -- IRA Custodians -- Yield Farming -- Buying Stocks of Companies That Own Coins and Tokens -- Taking the "Picks &
,
Shovels" Route -- Making Bets via Derivatives -- Buying Coins, Tokens, Picks & -- Shovels, Companies, and Derivatives Indirectly -- Exchange-Traded Notes -- OTC Trusts -- Separately Managed Accounts -- Turnkey Asset Management Programs -- Venture Capital, Hedge Funds, and Funds of Funds -- Chapter 17: How to Manage Your Portfolio's Digital Assets -- Buy-and-Hold vs. Market Timing -- Reducing Risk via Dollar Cost Averaging -- Reducing Risk by Rebalancing -- Part Four: Regulation, Taxation, and Compliance -- Chapter 18: How Digital Assets Are Regulated -- How Crypto Is Regulated Around the World -- Asia -- Middle East -- Europe -- Africa -- North America -- Central America -- South America -- Chapter 19: Are Digital Assets Securities? -- Chapter 20: How Digital Assets Are Taxed -- Preface -- Let's Use the Right Words -- Introduction -- Acquiring Digital Assets -- Purchasing -- Receiving Digital Assets as Payment for Wages or Services -- Receiving Digital Assets in Exchange for Property -- Receiving Digital Assets as Payment for Money Owed to You -- Receiving Digital Assets as a Rebate When Using a Debit or Credit Card -- Learn to Earn -- Gifts Received -- Inheritance -- Unusual Ways to Acquire Digital Assets -- Holding Digital Assets -- Borrowing -- Collateral -- Tax Treatment of Loans -- Ownership of Certain Trusts -- Disposing of Digital Assets -- Converting One Digital Asset into Another -- Using Digital Assets as Payment for Goods and Services -- Gifts -- Donations -- FIFO, LIFO, and HIFO -- Like-Kind Exchanges -- The Wash-Sale Rule -- Taxation of NFTs -- What's a Collectible? -- If You Own a Business and Pay for Services with Digital Assets -- Chapter 21: Operations and Compliance -- Disclosures -- Valuations -- SMAs -- ADV, Part 1, Item 5.G.7 -- ADV, Part 1, Item 8A -- ADV, Part 1, Item 8C -- ADV, Part 1, Schedule D, Section 5K -- ADV, Part 2A.
,
ADV, Part 2, Item 4 -- ADV, Part 2, Item 5 -- ADV, Part 3, Item 8 -- Custody -- Qualified Custodians -- Privacy and Confidentiality -- Code of Ethics -- Conflicts of Interest -- KYC -- AML -- Best Execution -- Compliance Policies and Practices -- RFIT Program -- Marketing -- ADV, Part 3 -- Confidentiality -- Dual Registrants -- Protecting You and Your Firm-and Thus Your Clients- When Dealing with Digital Assets Insurance Policies -- Fidelity Bonds -- How to Implement Digital Assets into Your Practice -- Firm Philosophy: What Is Your Future Plan? -- Firm Policies -- Client Communication and Documentation -- Internal Systems -- Billing and Collection of Advisory Fees -- Billing in Advance -- Part Five: Getting Started -- Chapter 22: The Answers to the Ten Common Concerns -- 1. I'm Nervous About Investing in Digital Assets -- 2. It's a Fad -- 3. It's a Fraud -- 4. There's No Legitimate Way to Ascertain the Value -- 5. It's Too Volatile -- 6. It's Too Risky -- 7. I Don't Think I Need This in My Portfolio -- 8. It's Too Late to Buy Because the Price Is Too High -- 9. Bitcoin Prices Are Volatile, So I'll Wait for the Next Decline Before I Buy -- 10. I Don't Know How, or Even Where, to Begin -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Glossary -- Index -- Copyright
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Edelman, Ric The Truth about Crypto New York : Simon & Schuster,c2022 ISBN 9781668002322
Language:
English
Bookmarklink