How money got free : Bitcoin and the fight for the future of finance / Brian Patrick Eha

By:

Eha, Brian Patrick

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: London, England : Oneworld Publications Ltd, 2017Description: 486 pages ; 24 cmISBN:

9781780746586
178074658X

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

332.4/9

LOC classification:

HG 1710 E33h 2017

Contents:

Prologue : money and liberty Making money Virtual crack The gray hat Blood and vein A meeting in Ibiza Regulation blues Bitcoin never sleeps The billionaire who wasn't Innovation and its discontents Meltdown The internet of money Death and taxes The plea deal Vindication Hearts and minds Epilogue : discipline and anarchy

Summary: "In the space of a few years, Bitcoin has gone from an idea ignored or maligned by almost everyone to an asset with a market cap of more than $12 billion. Venture capital firms, Goldman Sachs, the New York Stock Exchange, and billionaires such as Richard Branson and Peter Thiel have invested more than $1 billion in companies built on this groundbreaking technology. Bill Gates has even declared it 'better than currency'. But can its early promise endure? Or will the next evolution of money be neutered as it goes mainstream? The pioneers of Bitcoin were twenty-first-century outlaws--cryptographers, hackers, Free Staters, ex-cons and drug dealers, teenage futurists and self-taught entrepreneurs--armed with a renegade ideology and a grudge against big government and big banks. Now those same institutions are threatening to co-opt or curtail the impact of digital currency. But the pioneers, some of whom have become millionaires themselves, aren't going down without a fight. Sweeping and provocative, How Money Got Free reveals how this disruptive technology is shaping the debate around competing ideas of money and liberty, and what that means for our future."

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Ciencias Sociales	Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso)	HG 1710 E33h 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00000165201

Prologue : money and liberty
Making money
Virtual crack
The gray hat
Blood and vein
A meeting in Ibiza
Regulation blues
Bitcoin never sleeps
The billionaire who wasn't
Innovation and its discontents
Meltdown
The internet of money
Death and taxes
The plea deal
Vindication
Hearts and minds
Epilogue : discipline and anarchy

"In the space of a few years, Bitcoin has gone from an idea ignored or maligned by almost everyone to an asset with a market cap of more than $12 billion. Venture capital firms, Goldman Sachs, the New York Stock Exchange, and billionaires such as Richard Branson and Peter Thiel have invested more than $1 billion in companies built on this groundbreaking technology. Bill Gates has even declared it 'better than currency'. But can its early promise endure? Or will the next evolution of money be neutered as it goes mainstream? The pioneers of Bitcoin were twenty-first-century outlaws--cryptographers, hackers, Free Staters, ex-cons and drug dealers, teenage futurists and self-taught entrepreneurs--armed with a renegade ideology and a grudge against big government and big banks. Now those same institutions are threatening to co-opt or curtail the impact of digital currency. But the pioneers, some of whom have become millionaires themselves, aren't going down without a fight. Sweeping and provocative, How Money Got Free reveals how this disruptive technology is shaping the debate around competing ideas of money and liberty, and what that means for our future."

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