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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier,
[2015]
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| Online Access: | View fulltext via EzAccess |
| Summary: | 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. 1. Discusses all major strategies and tactics associated with digital currencies, their uses, and their regulations. 2. Presents future scenarios for the growth of digital currencies. 3. 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 588 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780128023518 0128023511 |