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| Author | : Sarah Swammy |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2019-01-24 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 3030001350 |
Crypto currency integrated BlockChain under Virtual Scalable Enterprises is a widely debated and earnestly discussed topic in the technology arena. Executives at the largest institutions are calling crypto currency fraudulent while high-level institutional banking professionals are leaving their positions to jump into crypto technology, regulation and investment opportunities as industries advance towards adoption. The narratives on these topics are diametrically opposite and polarizing on both side of the debate. While this debate has many layers from a government regulatory side to social impact to the practicality of everyday use of crypto currencies in developing markets, it is safe to assume that crypto currencies or utility tokens are more than a global phenomenon and are now becoming a working framework for optional modes of business. This book demystifies what crypto currency is, how it is used, and what it means to the consumer, investor, and the future of our global currency marketplace. By providing the historical backdrop to the market, authors Sarah Swammy, Richard Thompson, and Marvin Loh provide a clear definition of what crypto-currencies actually are, how they are being used and by whom, and the unique reasons why they have gone from back street to Main Street almost overnight. The book will also delve into the government’s role in regulating this commerce medium. Lastly, the authors will look at the current global monetary policy and discuss if this type of currency phenomena was a direct result while also examining the potential risk and rewards for investors and the economy.
| Author | : Nathan Venture. D |
| Publisher | : eBookIt.com |
| Total Pages | : 152 |
| Release | : 2024-05-15 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1456650424 |
Embark on the Ultimate Journey Through the Cryptocurrency Revolution Imagine standing on the precipice of a financial revolution, a landscape brimming with opportunities akin to the legendary gold rushes of yesteryear. "Cryptocurrency Uncovered: Your Guide Through the Digital Gold Rush" is your essential compass through this exhilarating and sometimes mystifying terrain, carefully crafted to guide novices and seasoned investors alike through the world of digital currencies. Upon this journey, you'll uncover the origins and evolution of cryptocurrency, exploring the seismic shift from traditional financial systems to the digital marketplace. Step by step, you'll unlock the secrets behind blockchain technology, a groundbreaking innovation upon which cryptocurrencies build their secure and transparent foundations. Dive deep into the complexities of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and an array of alternative coins that are reshaping the notion of money and investments. With each chapter designed to incrementally build your confidence and expertise, this book transforms the seemingly intricate world of digital currency into an approachable and empowering experience. But it's not just about understanding–this guide navigates you through the practicalities too. From setting up a digital wallet to making astute choices in the maze of trading platforms, you'll take your first foray into cryptocurrency transactions armed with the knowledge to do so securely and sagely. Gain an investor's acumen, dissect market trends, perfect your portfolio, and learn to harvest your own digital gold through the fascinating world of crypto mining. There's no stone left unturned as this book also addresses the all-important aspects of security, regulatory compliance, and the emerging trends that will shape the future of this digital rush. As you turn the final page of "Cryptocurrency Uncovered," you'll not only have grasped the intricacies of blockchain and cryptocurrency, but you'll also be ready to make your mark in the increasingly decentralized financial world that awaits. Are you ready to join the digital gold rush? Your guide awaits.
| Author | : Arvind Narayanan |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 335 |
| Release | : 2016-07-19 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 1400884152 |
An authoritative introduction to the exciting new technologies of digital money Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies provides a comprehensive introduction to the revolutionary yet often misunderstood new technologies of digital currency. Whether you are a student, software developer, tech entrepreneur, or researcher in computer science, this authoritative and self-contained book tells you everything you need to know about the new global money for the Internet age. How do Bitcoin and its block chain actually work? How secure are your bitcoins? How anonymous are their users? Can cryptocurrencies be regulated? These are some of the many questions this book answers. It begins by tracing the history and development of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, and then gives the conceptual and practical foundations you need to engineer secure software that interacts with the Bitcoin network as well as to integrate ideas from Bitcoin into your own projects. Topics include decentralization, mining, the politics of Bitcoin, altcoins and the cryptocurrency ecosystem, the future of Bitcoin, and more. An essential introduction to the new technologies of digital currency Covers the history and mechanics of Bitcoin and the block chain, security, decentralization, anonymity, politics and regulation, altcoins, and much more Features an accompanying website that includes instructional videos for each chapter, homework problems, programming assignments, and lecture slides Also suitable for use with the authors' Coursera online course Electronic solutions manual (available only to professors)
| Author | : Laura Shin |
| Publisher | : Public Affairs |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-10-24 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9781541763029 |
The story of the idealists, technologists, and opportunists fighting to bring cryptocurrency to the masses. In their short history, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have gone through booms, busts, and internecine wars, recently reaching a market valuation of more than $2 trillion. The central promise of crypto endures--vast fortunes made from decentralized networks not controlled by any single entity and not yet regulated by many governments. The recent growth of crypto would have been all but impossible if not for a brilliant young man named Vitalik Buterin and his creation: Ethereum. In this book, Laura Shin takes readers inside the founding of this novel cryptocurrency network, which enabled users to launch their own new coins, thus creating a new crypto fever. She introduces readers to larger-than-life characters like Buterin, the Web3 wunderkind; his short-lived CEO, Charles Hoskinson; and Joe Lubin, a former Goldman Sachs VP who became one of crypto's most well-known billionaires. Sparks fly as these outsized personalities fight for their piece of a seemingly limitless new business opportunity. This fascinating book shows the crypto market for what it really is: a deeply personal struggle to influence the coming revolution in money, culture, and power.
| Author | : Andy Greenberg |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2022-11-15 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 0385548109 |
From the award-winning author of Sandworm comes the propulsive story of a new breed of investigators who have cracked the Bitcoin blockchain, exposing once-anonymous realms of money, drugs, and violence. “I love the book… It reads like a thriller… These stories are amazing.” (Michael Lewis) Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrency. Crime lords inhabiting lawless corners of the internet have operated more freely—whether in drug dealing, money laundering, or human trafficking—than their analog counterparts could have ever dreamed of. By transacting not in dollars or pounds but in currencies with anonymous ledgers, overseen by no government, beholden to no bankers, these black marketeers have sought to rob law enforcement of their chief method of cracking down on illicit finance: following the money. But what if the centerpiece of this dark economy held a secret, fatal flaw? What if their currency wasn’t so cryptic after all? An investigator using the right mixture of technical wizardry, financial forensics, and old-fashioned persistence could uncover an entire world of wrongdoing. Tracers in the Dark is a story of crime and pursuit unlike any other. With unprecedented access to the major players in federal law enforcement and private industry, veteran cybersecurity reporter Andy Greenberg tells an astonishing saga of criminal empires built and destroyed. He introduces an IRS agent with a defiant streak, a Bitcoin-tracing Danish entrepreneur, and a colorful ensemble of hardboiled agents and prosecutors as they delve deep into the crypto-underworld. The result is a thrilling, globe-spanning story of dirty cops, drug bazaars, trafficking rings, and the biggest takedown of an online narcotics market in the history of the Internet. Utterly of our time, Tracers in the Dark is a cat-and-mouse story and a tale of a technological one-upmanship. Filled with canny maneuvering and shocking twists, it answers a provocative question: How would some of the world’s most brazen criminals behave if they were sure they could never get caught?
| Author | : Jason CJ |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 2021-05-19 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
Catherine Wood has emerged as the "breakout star investor" by Insider as she catapulted into visibility especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, where her flagship multibillion dollar ARK Innovation ETF rose a whopping 150%. Future of finance reporter John Detrixhe pointed to the polar opposites in investment philosophy of Catherine and Warren Buffett, and he is right on point. Whilst the Oracle of Omaha has been known to go deep with value stocks and a sceptic on "hyped-up tech", Wood has been gobbling them up, and in some cases, buying every dip. This book lays out her firm's picks in selecting tech firms for the various ETFs of Ark, the very choices that earned this once obscure firm a cult-like following in the investment community. Read on as we follow her on her biggest investment bets and her thinking behind them. In this volume, we focus on two big ideas of ARK - money flow, transportation and supply chain. This spills into the businesses of Coinbase, Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, Square, Tesla, TuSimple, Workhorse and Trimble. CONTENTS Background of Catherine Wood "Total Addressable Market" of disruptive technology Eyes on the prize - an adjustable goal post? Grayscale Bitcoin Trust & Coinbase Square Tesla, TuSimple, Workhorse, Trimble
| Author | : Steven Levy |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 604 |
| Release | : 2001-01-08 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 1101199466 |
If you've ever made a secure purchase with your credit card over the Internet, then you have seen cryptography, or "crypto", in action. From Stephen Levy—the author who made "hackers" a household word—comes this account of a revolution that is already affecting every citizen in the twenty-first century. Crypto tells the inside story of how a group of "crypto rebels"—nerds and visionaries turned freedom fighters—teamed up with corporate interests to beat Big Brother and ensure our privacy on the Internet. Levy's history of one of the most controversial and important topics of the digital age reads like the best futuristic fiction.
| Author | : Jennifer Robertson |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 259 |
| Release | : 2022-01-18 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1443463914 |
She met the man of her dreams and suddenly had it all. Then, in one fateful night, she lost everything, and the nightmare began Jennifer Robertson was working hard to build a life for herself from the ashes of her first marriage. Still only twenty-six, she swiped right on a dating app and met Gerry Cotten, a man she would not normally have considered—too young and not her type—but found she’d met her match. Eccentric but funny and kind, Cotten turned out to be a bitcoin wizard who quickly amassed substantial wealth through his company, Quadriga. The couple travelled the world, first class all the way, while Cotten worked on his multitude of encrypted laptops. Then, while the couple was on their honeymoon in India, opening an orphanage in their name, Gerry fell ill and died in a matter of hours. Jennifer was consumed by grief and guilt, but that was only the beginning. It turned out that Gerry owed $250 million to Quadriga customers, and all the passwords to his encrypted virtual vaults, hidden on his many laptops, had died with him. Jennifer was left with more than one hundred thousand investors looking for their money, and questions, suspicions and accusations spiralling dangerously out of control. The Quadriga scandal touched off major investment and criminal investigations, not to mention Internet rumours circulating on dark message boards, including claims that Gerry had faked his own death and that his wife was the real mastermind behind a sophisticated sting operation. While Jennifer waited for a dead man’s switch e-mail that would probably never come, it became clear that Cotten had gambled away about $100 million of the funds entrusted to him for investment in his many schemes, leaving Robertson holding the bag. Bitcoin Widow is Catch Me If You Can meets a widow betrayed, a life of fairy-tale romance and private jets torched by duplicity, as Jennifer Robertson tries to reset her life in the wake of one of the biggest investment scandals of the digital age.
| Author | : Jayashree Patil-Dake |
| Publisher | : Xoffencerpublication |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2023-07-17 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 8119534034 |
The curiosity and imagination of investors, researchers, politicians, and members of the general public alike have been captured by cryptocurrencies and the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), which they are founded on. Cryptocurrencies were hailed as the "currency of the future" by the technology industry, and their proponents extolled the potential benefits of using them. These potential benefits included a payment system that was risk-free and entirely decentralized, a financial sector that was more streamlined and more reliable, and an economy that was more cooperative, open, and democratic. The reality has been more complicated than anticipated, and it is characterized by a significant degree of volatility in the price of well-known cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, an uncomfortably high degree of opacity and centralization, and inefficient implementations, particularly with regard to the quantity of energy that is used. The allure of India as a potential answer to time-honored economic issues, with its cutting-edge advancements in computer science and cryptography, is, however, too powerful to ignore. Therefore, in spite of the obvious difficulties that jindiat brought up, people are still coming up with new applications for distributed ledger technology. Through the utilization of non-fungible tokens, one of these applications has the potential to bring about a sea change in the manner in which works of art and other types of intellectual property are exchanged. It should come as no surprise that the range of applications for cryptocurrencies, blockchains, and DLT, in addition to the requisite technical background to comprehend them, are outside the scope of what can be covered in a single article. To those people who are interested in knowing more about this intriguing region, we certainly suggest this as a location to begin their exploration of the topic. The applications of distributed ledger technology that are directly connected to finance will be the primary topic of discussion throughout this chapter. To be more exact, we take into consideration cryptocurrencies that may be thought of as pure assets or commodities like Bitcoin, as well as the more recent class of cryptocurrencies known as stable coins that are used in central bank digital currencies (CBDC).
| Author | : Michael J. Hostetler |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 206 |
| Release | : 2024-03-29 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1003852521 |
Now in its third edition, this comprehensive textbook is designed to serve as a speech-making reference for advanced students of public speaking. The book presumes that readers have prior experience with basic public speaking skills and seeks to enhance those abilities with references to classical concepts, the inclusion of sample speeches, and questions for speech criticism. This new edition includes a greater diversity of speeches and new material on populist rhetoric and civility to outline the importance of civic discourse in an age of polarization. It also includes suggestions for speaking to remote audiences. Providing users with the opportunity to increase their speaking abilities across a wide variety of complex and specific contexts, this student-engagement focused and flexible text serves as a core textbook for upper-level undergraduate public speaking courses. Online resources for instructors include an instructor’s manual and test bank offering guidance on syllabus construction, lecture content, and classroom activities. They are available at www.routledge.com/9781032531861.
