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

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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.

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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