Magic Internet Money
Magic Internet Money

Author: Jesse Berger

Publisher:

Published: 2020-09-15

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9781777128401

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What is money? The question is simple, but the answer is not. Pulling back the curtain on ideas at the heart of the modern monetary renaissance, Magic Internet Money takes you on a timely journey through the intertwined worlds of money and Bitcoin. Discussing a variety of related topics - such as banking, cryptography, economics, and governance - in plain language, this illuminating tale examines many common assumptions about money, challenging readers to re-think its role in society. Packed with vivid imagery and engaging descriptions, this book is as entertaining as it is insightful, shattering popular misconceptions and unraveling the promise of sound money - and in particular, Bitcoin - to usher in a brighter future for all of us.

Magic and Loss
Magic and Loss

Author: Virginia Heffernan

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-06-27

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1501132679

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Virginia Heffernan gives a highly informative analysis of what the internet is and can be in an examination of its past, present and future.

The Bitcoin Book
The Bitcoin Book

Author: Matthew Lopez

Publisher:

Published: 2019-05-04

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9781096564065

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Bitcoin has taken the world by storm, but what exactly is Bitcoin and what's so unique about it?In the Bitcoin Book, Josh and Matt reveal the simple steps you can take to master bitcoin in the fastest time possible. Josh was an early adopter who first got started with Bitcoin in 2012 when the price was under $100. Almost immediately, he realized the potential of what Bitcoin could be and became deeply involved.Together, Josh and Matt have almost 10 years of combined experience with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. From day-trading to investing in crypto startups, running nodes, mining, using dApps, building blockchain startups, coding smart contracts ... The list goes on and on. You name it, they've done it.In the book, they cover: What Bitcoin is and how it works Why Bitcoin is a revolutionary technology How Bitcoin beats the fiat currency that we use today How you can easily send and receive bitcoin How to safely store your bitcoin so it never gets lost or stolen What you NEED to know before you buy bitcoin And much more They explain bitcoin in a way that is easy for anyone to understand and relate to even if they have zero prior knowledge on the subject. By using analogies and examples, they turn something that is seemingly complex into something that is easy for anyone to grasp. Whether your an entrepreneur, a student, or just a person that likes learning new things, you will be able to to take this knowledge and immediately apply it to participate in the new digital economy. The Bitcoin Book is an essential read for anyone looking to gain a better understanding of this new technology. It packs everything you need to master bitcoin, quick and easy.

Bitcoin
Bitcoin

Author: Clay Fales

Publisher:

Published: 2021-02-11

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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Bitcoin, the first cryptocurrency, is a decentralized form of digital cash that eliminates the need for traditional intermediaries like banks and governments to make financial transactions. What's inside this book? Part 1: Why Bitcoin Matters Now - What is bitcoin? - Who created it? - Why bitcoin is 'money you can't f*ck with' - How bitcoin emerged out of the 2008 banking crisis. - Why money printing slowly destroys your wealth. Part 2: A brief history of money (and money printing) - Take a step back and learn 'what exactly is money?' - Why 'printing cash' has always led to the death of currency. - Why bitcoin is the best form of money ever created. Part 3: How bitcoin becomes the next global reserve currency - A deep dive into the 2020 financial crisis and how bitcoin emerged strongest - The emergence of national digital currencies to compete. - Why some nation states are now holding and trading in bitcoin.

New Money
New Money

Author: Lana Swartz

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2020-05-01

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0300252455

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A new vision of money as a communication technology that creates and sustains invisible—often exclusive—communities One of the basic structures of everyday life, money is at its core a communication media. Payment systems—cash, card, app, or Bitcoin—are informational and symbolic tools that integrate us into, or exclude us from, the society that surrounds us. Examining the social politics of financial technologies, Lana Swartz reveals what’s at stake when we pay. This accessible and insightful analysis comes at a moment of disruption: from “fin-tech” startups to cryptocurrency schemes, a variety of technologies are poised to unseat traditional financial infrastructures. Swartz explains these changes, traces their longer histories, and demonstrates their consequences. Getting paid and paying determines whether or not you can put food on the table. She shows just how important these invisible systems are. The data that payment produces is uniquely revelatory—and newly valuable. New forms of money create new forms of identity, new forms of community, and new forms of power.

How Money Got Free
How Money Got Free

Author: Brian Patrick Eha

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-04-06

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 1780746598

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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’. 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.

Bitcoin Magic Internet Money
Bitcoin Magic Internet Money

Author: Stylized Workbooks

Publisher:

Published: 2019-01-21

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 9781794501386

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* 6" x 9" Portable compact size, easy to take and store anywhere! * 120 lined pages * 55lb Paper stock minimizes bleed through * Great for writing notes, thoughts, ideas, recipes or whatever- on the go! Click on 'Look Inside' to get a sneak peek at the pages available inside this paperback book to see if this is the right fit for your needs. Want more Stylized Workbooks? Click on our brand name to see more stylized artwork workbooks, journals, sketchbooks, dairies, log books and more!

Bitcoin
Bitcoin

Author: Jose Pagliery

Publisher: Triumph Books

Published: 2014-09-01

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1629370363

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Bitcoin first appeared in 2009, and it's already challenging everything we've come to accept about money, financial institutions, and even government. The digital currency can be nearly anonymous. And it can be traded internationally—without the fees, government regulation, and bank oversight of paper money. But Bitcoin is still risky. Its value fluctuates wildly. More than $400 billion of it disappeared overnight with the fall of a single trading exchange. How is that possible? And why is it so popular? CNNMoney reporter Jose Pagliery explains it all. He details the digital currency's mysterious origins. He explores the dark side of Bitcoin: a world of drugs and assassins for hire. And he examines the economic impact of this revolutionary concept through interviews with pensive economists, wary bank regulators, and free market proponents such as Ron Paul. Bitcoin: And the Future of Money explains how it works and why it matters. The book is essential reading for anyone looking to understand a financial innovation that will forever change how we think about money.

The Cryptopians
The Cryptopians

Author: Laura Shin

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 2022-02-22

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1541763009

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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.

Resistance Money
Resistance Money

Author: Andrew M. Bailey

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-06-14

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1040050174

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Bitcoin isn’t just for criminals, speculators, or wealthy Silicon Valley entrepreneurs – despite what the headlines say. In an imperfect world of rampant inflation, creeping authoritarianism, surveillance, censorship, and financial exclusion, bitcoin empowers individuals to elude the expanding reach and tightening grip of institutions both public and private. So although bitcoin is money, it isn’t just money. Bitcoin is resistance money. Resistance Money: A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin begins by explaining why bitcoin was invented, how it works, and where it fits among other kinds of money. The authors then offer a framework for evaluating bitcoin from a global perspective and use it to examine bitcoin’s monetary policy, censorship-resistance, privacy, inclusion, and energy use. The book develops a comprehensive and measured case that bitcoin is a net benefit to the world, despite its imperfections. Resistance Money is intended for all, from the clueless to the specialist, from the proponent to the die-hard skeptic, and everyone in between. Key Features: Provides a philosophical approach that makes use of multiple disciplines in its analysis Offers a clearly written, measured academic treatment of bitcoin, comprehensive in scope and free of ideological baggage Includes information on the financial, social, and environmental costs of bitcoin, how these costs are sometimes exaggerated, and how they might be mitigated Addresses the strongest arguments against bitcoin and shows how some succeed and most come up short.