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Title:
Handbook of digital currency : Bitcoin, innovation, financial instruments, and big data / edited by David Lee Kuo Chuen.
Author:
Lee, David (David Kuo Chen), editor.
Publication Information:
Amsterdam : Elsevier/AP, [2015]

©2015
Call Number:
HG1710 .H363 2015
ISBN:
9780128021170
Physical Description:
xxiv, 588 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Part 1: Digital currency and Bitcoin. Section 1: Bitcoin and alternative cryptocurrencies. Introduction to Bitcoin / Lam Pak Nian, David Lee Kuo Chuen ; Is Bitcoin a real currency? An economic appraisal / David Yermack ; Bitcoin mining technology / Niruparna Devi Bhaskar, David Lee Kuo Chuen ; National cryptocurrencies / Andras Kristof ; Evaluating the potential of alternative cryptocurrencies / Bobby Ong, Telk Ming Lee, Guo Li, David Lee Kuo Chuen -- Section 2: E-payment and security. The effect of payment reversibility on e-commerce and postal quality / Christian Jaag, Christian Bach ; Blockchain and digital payments : an institutionalist analysis of cryptocurrencies / Georges Papadopoulos ; Counterfeiting in cryptocurrency: an emerging problem / Ralph E. McKinney, Jr., Lawrence P. Shao, Duance C. Rosenlieb, Jr., Dale H. Shao -- Section 3: Big data and network effect. Emergence, growth, and sustainability of Bitcoin : the network economics perspective / Ernie G.S. Teo ; Cryptocurrencies as distributed community experiments / Matthias Tarasiewicz, Andrew Newman ; Extracting market-implied Bitcoin's risk-free interest rate / Nicolas Wesner ; A microeconomic analysis of Bitcoin and illegal activities / Tetsuya Saito -- Part 2: Finance markets and Bitcoin. Section 4: Regulation and taxation. Legal issues in cryptocurrency / Vrajlal Sapovadia ; How to tax Bitcoin? / Aleksandra Bal ; Cryptocurrency and virtual currency : corruption and money laundering/terrorism financing risks? / Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo ; A light touch of regulation for virtual currencies / Lam Oak Nian, David Lee Kuo Chuen ; Real regulation of virtual currencies / Ricard B. Levin, Aaron A. O'Brien, Madiha M. Zuberi ; A facilitative model for cryptocurrency regulation in Singapore / Jonathan W. Lim -- Section 5: Financial innovation and Internet of money. Advancing egalitarianism / Gavin Wood, Aeron Buchanan ; How digital currencies will cascade up to a global stable currency : the fundamental framework for the money of the future / Gideon Samid ; Bitcoin-like protocols and innovations / Ignacio Mas, David Lee Kuo Chuen ; Blockchain electronic vote / Pierre Noizat ; Translating commons-based peer production values into metrics: toward commons-based cryptocurrencies / Primavera De Filippi ; The confluence of Bitcoin and the global sharing economy / Alyse Killeen ; What does cryptocurrency mean for the new economy? / David G.W. Birch ; Bitcoin : a look at the past and the future / Anton Cruysheer -- Section 6: Investments and crowdfunding. Bitcoin IPO, ETF, and crowdfunding / Niruparna Devi Bhaskar, Lam Pak Nian, David Lee Kuo Chuen ; Bitcoin exchanges / Niruparna Devi Bhaskar, David Lee Kuo Chuen.
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