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

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 INDICE: Part I: Digital Currency and Bitcoin System Section 1. Bitcoin System and Alternative Crypto-currencies 1. Introduction to Bitcoin 2. Is Bitcoin a Real Currency? An Economic Appraisal 3. Bitcoin Mining Technology 4. National Crypto Currencies 5. Evaluation of the Potential of Alternative Cryptocurrencies Section 2: E-Payment and Security 6. The Effect of Payment Reversibility on E-commerce and Postal Quality 7. An Evolutionary Analysis of the Expansion of Cryptocurrencies in Digital Payments 8. Couterfeiting in Cryptocurrency: An Emerging Problem Section 3: Big Data, Network Effect and Capital Flow 9. Emergence, Growth, and Sustainability of Bitcoin: The Network Economics Perspective 10. Cryptocurrencies as Distributed Community Experiments 11. Extracting Market Implied Bitcoin's Risk Free Interest Rate 12. A Microeconomic Analysis of Bitcoins and Illegal Activities Part II: Finance Markets and Bitcoin Section 4: Regulation, Taxation and Anti Money Laundering Measures 13. Legal Issues in Cryptocurrencies 14. How to Tax Bitcoin 15. Crypto- and Virtualcurrencies: Corruption, and Money Laundering/Terrorism Financing Risks? 16. A Light Touch of Regulation for Virtual Currencies 17. Regulation of Virtual Currencies in the Untied States 18. A Facilitative Model for Cryptocurrency Regulation in Singapore Section 5: Financial Innovation and Internet of Money 19. Blockchain Technology and How to Give Way to a New Social Paradigm 20. How Digital Currencies Will Cascade Up to a Global Stable Currency 21. Bitcoin-like Protocols and Innovation 22. Blockchain Electronic Vote 23. Translating Commons-Based Peer Production Values into Metrics: Towards Commons-Based Cryptocurrencies 24. The Confluence of Bitcoin and the Global Sharing Economy 25. Back to the Future of Money: Cryptocurrency as Flux Capacitor Section 6: Investments and Crowdfunding 26. Bitcoin IPO, ETF and Crowdfunding 27. Bitcoin Exchanges

• ISBN: 978-0-12-802117-0
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 500
• Fecha Publicación: 12/04/2015
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés