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

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

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Author / Creator:	Eha, Brian Patrick, author.
Imprint:	London : Oneworld Publications Ltd., 2017. ©2017
Description:	486 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Bitcoin. Currency question. Electronic commerce. Money. Electronic funds transfers. Bitcoin. Currency question. Electronic commerce. Electronic funds transfers. Money.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11060797

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ISBN:	178074658X 9781780746586
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-473) and index.
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."--Jacket flap.

Table of Contents:

Prologue: Money and Liberty
Chapter 1. Making Money
Chapter 2. Virtual Crack
Chapter 3. The Gray Hat
Chapter 4. Blood and Vein
Chapter 5. A Meeting in Ibiza
Chapter 6. Regulation Blues
Chapter 7. Bitcoin Never Sleeps
Chapter 8. The Billionaire Who Wasn't
Chapter 9. Innovation and Its Discontents
Chapter 10. Meltdown
Chapter 11. The Internet of Money
Chapter 12. Death and Taxes
Chapter 13. The Plea Deal
Chapter 14. Vindication
Chapter 15. Hearts and Minds
Epilogue: Discipline and Anarchy
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index