by David Lee Kuo Chuen
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
