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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0128021179 ISBN 13: 9780128021170

Publisher: Academic Press, 2015

Synopsis

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)

About this title

Review:

"The Handbook of Digital Currency is a very timely reference source on the emerging phenomenon of digital currencies, especially in these times of astonishing growth in popularity and public attention to digital currencies and cryptocurrencies. This book provides an authoritative and reliable reference in this quickly emerging field, setting up a context for future academic and research works on the topic." --ETH Zurich

Review:

An award-winning reference work that provides complete coverage on the emerging phenomenon of digital currencies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0128021179
• ISBN 13: 9780128021170
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 612
• Editor: Lee David