TY  - BOOK
AU  - Montemayor,Jose Cabrera
TI  - Bitcoins: legalities and economics 
SN  - 9786210204841 [paperback]
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Quezon City, Philippines
PB  - Central Book Supply, Inc.
KW  - Bitcoin
KW  - Blockchain
N1  - Contents: Bitcoin -- Etymology -- Units -- History of bitcoin -- Pre-history -- Creation -- How does bitcoin work? -- The basics for a new user -- Balances-block chain -- Transactions-private keys -- Process-mining -- Going down the rabbit hole -- Growth --Bitcoin value history -- Forks -- March 2013 -- Regulatory issues -- Theft and exchange shutdowns -- Taxation and regulation --  Arbitrary blockchain content --Design blockchain -- Transactions -- Transaction fees -- Ownership -- Mining -- Pooled mining -- Supply -- Wallets -- Implementations -- Decentralization -- Privacy -- Fungibility -- Scalability -- Economics -- Bitcoin: economics, technology, and governance -- Bitcoin activity to date -- Bitcoin design principles -- Enabling technologies and processes -- Transactions and the blockchain -- Bitcoin's approach to transaction flow and validation -- New transactions -- Built-in incentives -- What bitcoin doesn't have centralization and decentralization in the bitcoin ecosystem -- Currency exchanges -- Digital wallet services -- Mixers -- Mining  pools -- Uses of bitcoin--The ten most popular product categories on the silk road -- Buy-and-hold -- Risks in bitcoin -- Regulating virtual currencies -- Fighting crime -- Consumer protection -- Regulatory options-- Bitcoin as a social science -- Bitcoin as a financial asset -- Incentive-compatability in bitcoin protocols -- Privacy and anonymity -- Monetary policy -- Looking ahead -- Classification -- General use -- Acceptance by merchants -- Payment servive providers -- Financial institutions -- As an investment -- Venture capital -- Prices and volatility -- Ponzi scheme and pyramid scheme concerns -- Speculative bubble dispute -- Legal status, tax and regulation -- Energy consumption -- Criminal activity -- In popular culture -- Anonymity -- Public key -- Private key -- Technical details -- The blockchain -- Mining -- QR codes -- Exchanges -- Wallets --  Popularity -- Legality of bitcoin by country or territory -- Detail by union -- Detail by country or territory -- Frequently asked questions -- What is bitcoin -- Who created bitcoin -- Who controls the bitcoin network -- How does bitcoin work? -- Is bitcoin really used by people -- How does one acquire bitcoins -- How difficult is it to make a bitcoin payment -- What are the advantages of a bitcoin -- What are the disadvantages of a bitcoin -- Why do people trust bitcoin? -- Can I make money with bitcoin? -- Is bitcoin fully virtual and immaterial? -- Is bitcoin anonymous? -- What happens when bitcoins are lost? -- How difficult is it to make a can nitcoin scale to become a major payment network? -- Legal -- Is bitcoin legal? -- Is bitcoin useful for illegal activities? -- Can bitcoin be regulated? -- What about bitcoin and taxes? -- What about bitcoin and consumer protection? -- Economy -- How are bitcoins created? -- Why do bitcoins have value? -- What determines bitcoin's price? -- Can bitcoins become worthless? -- Is bitcoin a bubble? -- Is bitcoin a ponzi scheme? -- Doesn't bitcoin unfairly benefit early adopters? -- Won't the finite amount of bitcoins be limitation? -- Won't bitcoin fall in a deflationary spiral? -- Isn't speculation and volatility a problem for bitcoin? -- What if someone bought up all the existing bitcoins? -- What is someone creates a better digital currency? -- Transactions -- Why do I have to wait for confirmation? -- How much will the transaction fee be? -- What if I receive a bitcoin when my computer is powered off? -- What does "synchronizing" mean and why does it take so long? -- Mining -- What is bitcoin mining? -- How does bitcoin mining work? -- Isn't bitcoin mining a waste of energy? -- How does mining help secure bitcoin? -- What do I need to start mining? -- Security -- Is bitcoin secure? -- Hasn't bitcoin been hacked in the past? -- Could users collude against bitcoin? -- Is bitcoin vulnerable to quantum computing?
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