Handbook of digital currency : Bitcoin, innovation, financial instruments, and big data
David Lee (Editor)
Incorporating currencies, payment methods, and protocols that computers use to talk to each other, digital currencies are poised to grow in use and importance. Taking a cross-country perspective, its comprehensive view of the field includes history, technicality, IT, finance, economics, legal, tax and regulatory environment. This book discusses all major strategies and tactics associated with digital currencies, their uses, and their regulations; presents future scenarios for the growth of digital currencies; is 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. -- Edited summary from book
eBook, English, 2015
Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier, London, UK, 2015
1 online resource : illustrations
9780128023518, 0128023511
923498614
<P><b>PART I: DIGITAL CURRENCY AND BITCOIN SYSTEM</b></p> <p><U>1 Bitcoin System and Alternative Cryptocurrencies</U></p> <p>1. Introduction to Bitcoin <i>Lam Pak Nian, David Lee Kuo Chuen</i></p> <p>2. Is Bitcoin a Real Currency? An Economic Appraisal <i>David Yermack</i></p> <p>3. Bitcoin Mining Technology <i>Nirupama Devi Bhaskar, David Lee Kuo Chuen</i></p> <p>4. National Crypto Currencies <i>Andras Kristof </i></p> <p>5. Evaluating the Potential of Alternative Cryptocurrencies <i>Bobby Ong, TM Lee, Guo Li, David Lee Kuo Chuen</i></p> <p><U>2 E-Payment and Security</U></p> <p>6. The Effect of Payment Reversibility on E-commerce and Postal Quality <i>Christian Jaag, Christian Bach </i></p> <p>7. Blockchain and Digital Payments: An Institutionalist Analysis of Cryptocurrencies <i>Georgios Papadopoulos</i></p> <p>8. Counterfeiting in Cryptocurrency: An Emerging Problem <i>Ralph McKinney, Dale Shao, Lawrence Shao, Duane Rosenlieb</i></p> <p><U>3 Big Data, Network Effect and Capital Flow</U></p> <p>9. Emergence, Growth and Sustainability of Bitcoin: The Network Economics Perspective <i>Ernie G.S. Teo</i></p> <p>10. Cryptocurrencies as Distributed Community Experiments <i>Matthias Tarasiewicz, Andrew Newman </i></p> <p>11. Extracting Market Implied Bitcoin's Risk Free Interest Rate <i>Nicolas Wesner</i></p> <p>12.A Microeconomic Analysis of Bitcoins and Illegal Activities <i>Tetsuya Saito</i> <p><b>PART II: FINANCE MARKETS AND BITCOIN</b></p> <p><U>4 Regulation, Taxation and Anti Money Laundering Measures</U></p> <p>13. Legal Issues in Cryptocurrency <i>Vrajlal Sapovadia</i></p> <p>14. How to Tax Bitcoin? <i>Aleksandra Bal</i></p> <p>15. Crypto- and Virtual Currencies: Corruption, and Money Laundering / Terrorism Financing Risks? <i>Raymond Choo</i></p> <p>16. A Light Touch of Regulation for Virtual Currencies <i>Lam Pak Nian, David Lee Kuo Chuen</i></p> <p>17. Real Regulation of Virtual Currencies <i>Richard B. Levin, Aaron O'Brien, Madiha Zuberi </i></p> <p>18. A Facilitative Model for Crypto-currency Regulation in Singapore; <i>Jonathan Lim</i> <p><U>5 Financial Innovation and Internet of Money</U></p> <p>19. Advancing Egalitarianism <i>Gavin Wood, Aeron Buchanan</i> </p> <p>20. How Digital Currencies Will Cascade Up to a Global Stable Currency <i>Gideon Samid</i></p> <p>21. Bitcoin-Like Protocols and Innovation <i>Ignacio Mas, David Lee Kuo Chuen</i></p> <p>22. Blockchain Electronic Vote <i>Pierre Noizat</i></p> <p>23. Translating Commons-Based Peer Production Values into Metrics: Towards Commons-Based Crypto-Currencies <i>Primavera De Filippi</i></p> <p>24. The Confluence of Bitcoin and the Global Sharing Economy <i>Alyse Killeen</i></p> <p>25. What Does Cryptocurrency Mean for the New Economy? <i>Dave Birch</i></p> <p>26
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