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The Cryptocurrency Revolution: Finance in the age of Bitcoin, blockchains and tokens by Rhian Lewis; is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Praise for The Cryptocurrency Revolution 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 Acknowledgements 12 Introduction 14 01 What is money? 18 The first forms of money 19 Shell money 20 Promissory notes and the beginnings of paper cash 22 The stones of Yap 23 Fiat currencies and the gold standard 24 Hyperinflation in Germany 26 Banks and systemic risk 28 Origins of the modern banking system 29 Private money and legal tender 33 Modern examples of private money 37 References 39 02 The first 10 years of Bitcoin 40 Resilience and high availability 43 The single source of truth 45 Bitcoin fees versus banking fees 46 Cypherpunks and their vision 48 Double-entry and triple-entry accounting 51 The Bitcoin white paper 53 Bitcoin pizza – and the mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto 56 The emergence of Bitcoin exchanges 58 The revolution gathers pace 60 Transacting face to face: the growth of Bitcoin meetups 62 References 65 03 Litecoin, Ethereum and a tidal wave of altcoins 68 Litecoin: silver to Bitcoin’s gold 69 The cult of Dogecoin 71 Exchanges and trading tools in the early days of crypto 73 Counterparty and Mastercoin 75 Ethereum and the world computer 76 Ethereum and its growing ecos

Author

Rhian Lewis;

Language

EN