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Handbook of Digital Currency

Bitcoin, Innovation, Financial Instruments, and Big Data

  • 2nd Edition - July 2, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: David Lee Kuo Chuen
  • Language: English

Handbook of Digital Currency: Bitcoin, Innovation, Financial Instruments, and Big Data, Second Edition offers readers new ways to learn about subjects outside their specia… Read more

Description

Handbook of Digital Currency: Bitcoin, Innovation, Financial Instruments, and Big Data, Second Edition offers readers new ways to learn about subjects outside their specialties and provides authoritative background and tools for those whose primary source of information is journal articles. Encompassing currencies, payment methods, and computer communication protocols, digital currencies are growing in use and importance. The book's comprehensive view of the field covers history, technical, IT, finance, economics, legal, tax, and the regulatory environment. For those coming from different backgrounds with different questions in mind, this new edition is an essential starting point.

Key features

  • Discusses all major strategies and tactics associated with digital currencies, their uses, and their regulations
  • Presents future scenarios for the growth of digital currencies
  • Offers seven new chapters covering such topics as side chains, sharding, privacy protection and CBDC, Libra and the convergence of technology, and much more

Readership

Upper-division undergraduates, graduate and postgraduate students, and researchers in disciplines associated with virtual currencies, including financial institutions, computer technology, regulatory and taxation agencies, and financial markets; Professionals such as lawyers, government agencies employees, auditors and international bankers, 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, and remittance service providers interested in digital currency

Table of contents

Part 1: Digital Currency and Bitcoin

1. Introduction to Bitcoin

2. Is Bitcoin a Real Currency?

3. Bitcoin Mining Technology

4. National Cryptocurrencies

5. Evaluating the Potential of Alternative Cryptocurrencies

6. The Effect of Payment Reversibility on E-commerce and Postal Quality

7. Blockchain and Digital Payments

8. Counterfeiting in Cryptocurrency: An Emerging Problem

9. Emergence, Growth, and Sustainability of Bitcoin

10. Cryptocurrencies as Distributed Community Experiments

11. Extracting Market-Implied Bitcoin's Risk-Free Interest Rate

12. A Microeconomic Analysis of Bitcoin and Illegal Activities

Part 2: Finance Markets and Bitcoin

13. Legal Issues in Cryptocurrency

14. How to Tax Bitcoin?

15. Cryptocurrency and Virtual Currency

17. Real Regulation of Virtual Currencies

19. Advancing Egalitarianism

20. How Digital Currencies Will Cascade up to a Global Stable Currency

21. Bitcoin-Like Protocols and Innovations

22. Blockchain Electronic Vote

23. Translating Commons-Based Peer Production Values into Metrics

25. What Does Cryptocurrency Mean for the New Economy?

26. Bitcoin Past and the Future

27. Bitcoin IPO, ETF, and Crowdfunding

28. Bitcoin Exchanges

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: July 8, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editor

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David Lee Kuo Chuen

David LEE Kuo Chuen is a Professor of Financial Technology and Blockchain at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), an Adjunct Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS), a Council Member of the British Blockchain Association, Vice President of the Economic Society of Singapore, and Editor-in-Chief or Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Fintech and Annual Review of Fintech. He is also Chairman of the Global FinTech Institute (GFI), co-founder of the Singapore Blockchain Association, co-founder of the Blockchain Security Alliance, advisor to the Asian Development Bank, cryptocurrency advisor to the Asian Institute of Digital Finance (AIDF) of NUS, advisor to the SUSS Node for inclusive FinTech (NiFT), independent director of several technology companies in Singapore, angel investor in blockchain, WEB3, inclusive finance and AI innovation, senior advisor and Investment Committee member of Artichoke Capital which is backed by institutional and sovereign wealth fund limited partners.

Affiliations and expertise
School of Business, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore

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