Handbook of Digital Currency: Bitcoin, Innovation, Financial ...

David Lee Kuo Cheun

• 05 mei 2015
• 9780128023518

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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 regulations
• Presents future scenarios for the growth of digital currencies
• 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
• Winner of the 2015 "Outstanding Business Reference Source" by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA)