Handbook of Digital Currency : Bitcoin, Innovation, Financial Instruments, and Big Data (Paperback, 2 ed)

Part 1: Digital Currency and Bitcoin 1. Introduction to Bitcoin 2. Is Bitcoin a Real Currency? 3. Bitcoin Mining Technology 4. National Cryptocurrencies 5. Evaluating the Potential of Alternative Cryptocurrencies 6. The Effect of Payment Reversibility on E-commerce and Postal Quality 7. Blockchain and Digital Payments 8. Counterfeiting in Cryptocurrency: An Emerging Problem 9. Emergence, Growth, and Sustainability of Bitcoin 10. Cryptocurrencies as Distributed Community Experiments 11. Extracting Market-Implied Bitcoin's Risk-Free Interest Rate 12. A Microeconomic Analysis of Bitcoin and Illegal Activities

Part 2: Finance Markets and Bitcoin? 13. Legal Issues in Cryptocurrency? 14. How to Tax Bitcoin? 15. Cryptocurrency and Virtual Currency 17. Real Regulation of Virtual Currencies 19. Advancing Egalitarianism 20. How Digital Currencies Will Cascade up to a Global Stable Currency 21. Bitcoin-Like Protocols and Innovations 22. Blockchain Electronic Vote 23. Translating Commons-Based Peer Production Values into Metrics? 25. What Does Cryptocurrency Mean for the New Economy? 26. Bitcoin Past and the Future 27. Bitcoin IPO, ETF, and Crowdfunding 28. Bitcoin Exchanges