Catching up to crypto : your guide to Bitcoin and the new digital economy /
Ben Armstrong
- Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2023
- xx, 204 pages ; 24 cm
Includes index
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 The Next Next Generation Chapter 17 - Web3 & the Metaverse The Metaverse Not a New Idea Chapter 18 - Crypto FUD: Fear, Doubt & Uncertainty The Long Arm of The Law Energy Use Volatility, Centralization, and Quantum Computing Chapter 19 - Crypto Warnings: Hackers, Scammers & Contagion Hackers Scammers Contagion Chapter 20 - The Future of Crypto: Equities, ReFi & UBI Crypto Grows Up Stablecoins The Flippening Regenerative Finance Universal Basic Income Chapter 21 [[TK]] Appendix [[TK]] Notes
"The economy is transitioning into digital currency as a means of transferring and processing transactions, but very little know about virtual currencies currently available. Bitcoin, a form of Cryptocurrency for virtual transfers and transactions, is becoming well known not only within businesses but also everyday users. Bitcoin encourages users to use as a transfer method of money in a safe and efficient way. Users have access to use Bitcoin without qualification, except that one uses a computer or device for processing. No central banks, authority, of governments have involvement in monitoring Bitcoin exchanges, as no third party is involved with Bitcoin increasing independence for its users. With no regulating of ones Bitcoins, users have the advantage of freely processing payments using Bitcoin, even from Country to Country as long as it is accepted as a form of payment or exchange in that Country."