Catching Up to Crypto

Ben Armstrong 지음

Wiley 2023년 04월 01일 출간

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A fun and authoritative guide to bitcoin and the future of money In Catching Up to Crypto: Your Guide to Bitcoin and the New Digital Economy, celebrated crypto and Bitcoin expert Ben Armstrong delivers an exciting and fresh new exploration of Bitcoin and digital currencies. He explains what Bitcoin is, how it works, and how and why we’re all transitioning to a digital economy as we speak. He discusses the deficiencies of traditional fiat currency, how it’s commonly manipulated, and how we can all benefit from the adoption of new, digital assets. In the book, you’ll discover how Bitcoin operates in the real-world and how the underlying technology—known as the blockchain—operates. You’ll also learn about: The importance of decentralization, trust-less commerce and cryptographic consensus. The humble origins of Bitcoin, as well as how it nearly died out, and how it went on to take over the world How monetary and financial policy is being revolutionized by the introduction of Bitcoin and other crypto-assets.An essential and engaging review of Bitcoin, digital assets, and the new digital economy, Catching Up to Crypto is the hands-on and comprehensive introduction to crypto that investors, enthusiasts, the crypto-curious, and finance professionals have been waiting for.

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Foreword Dedication Chapter 1 - The Great Devaluation: Old Money, Central Banks & the Fed Central Banks The Fed Chapter 2 - Digital Money Tree: eCash, E-Gold & eBay New Money New Ways to Spend Chapter 3 - First-Gen Giants: Cypherpunks & Disruptive Tech Cypherpunk Disruptive Tech Chapter 4 - Genesis Block: Satoshi Nakamoto & Bitcoin A Culture Is Born Bitcoin for President Chapter 5 - A Short Course in Blockchain: Hashing, Mining & Forking Blockchain 101 Blockchain 201 Blockchain 365 Chapter 6 - A Necessary Evil: Silk Road’s Original Sin Silk Road The Streisand Effect Chapter 7 - “Mo Money, Mo Problems”: BitInstant and BitLicense BitInstant Regulators Take Notice Chapter 8 - What the Fork?: The Block-Size War Shots Fired ASICBoost Chapter 9 - The Future Is Born: Ethereum & Smart Contracts The Ethereum Team Blast Off The DAO Chapter 10 - Digital Gold Transformation: Cryptocurrencies & Crypto Assets Bitcoin Becomes Digital Gold Halving Chapter 11 - Crypto Turning Point: The Crypto-Rich Buy Bitcoin Moonboys and Lambos Chapter 12 - New Layer to the Internet: Decentralized Finance DeFi The Challengers Chapter 13 - Brave New World: Beyond Bitcoin Stablecoins Oracles Memecoins Community Coins Chapter 14 - Investment Prep: NOT Financial Advice Step One: Researching Step Two: Choosing Step Three: Deploying Chapter 15 - Tips of the Trade: Charting, Trendspotting & Leveraging Trading Tokens Some Trading Caveats Trader Training Types of Trading Risk Management [[Final high-level subhead]] Chapter 16 - Non-Fungible Tokens: NFTs Historical NFTs The Next Generation of NFTs T

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저자(글) Ben Armstrong