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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 032398973X ISBN 13: 9780323989732

Publisher: Academic Press, 2024

Synopsis

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.

• Discusses all major strategies and tactics associated with digital currencies, their uses, and their regulations
• Presents future scenarios for the growth of digital currencies
• Offers seven new chapters covering such topics as side chains, sharding, privacy protection and CBDC, Libra and the convergence of technology, and much more

About this title

About the Author

David LEE Kuo Chuen is a Professor of Financial Technology and Blockchain at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), an Adjunct Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS), a Council Member of the British Blockchain Association, Vice President of the Economic Society of Singapore, and Editor-in-Chief or Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Fintech and Annual Review of Fintech. He is also Chairman of the Global FinTech Institute (GFI), co-founder of the Singapore Blockchain Association, co-founder of the Blockchain Security Alliance, advisor to the Asian Development Bank, cryptocurrency advisor to the Asian Institute of Digital Finance (AIDF) of NUS, advisor to the SUSS Node for inclusive FinTech (NiFT), independent director of several technology companies in Singapore, angel investor in blockchain, WEB3, inclusive finance and AI innovation, senior advisor and Investment Committee member of Artichoke Capital which is backed by institutional and sovereign wealth fund limited partners.

From the Back Cover

Incorporating currencies, payment methods, and protocols that computers use to talk to each other, digital currencies grow in use and importance. This new edition of the Handbook of Digital Currency: Bitcoin, Innovation, Financial Instruments, and Big Data gives 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. Taking a cross-country perspective, the books 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, this new edition of the Handbook of Digital Currency: Bitcoin, Innovation, Financial Instruments, and Big Data is an essential starting point.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 032398973X
• ISBN 13: 9780323989732
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 730
• Editor: Lee Kuo Chuen