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  title info:
    title: National security implications of virtual currency
    sub title: examining the potential for non-state actor deployment
  name:
    name part: Baron, Joshua William
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: O'Mahony, Angela
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Manheim, David
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Dion-Schwarz, Cynthia
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
    role:
      role term: researcher.
  name:
    name part: United States
    name part: Department of Defense.
    name part: Office of the Secretary of Defense,
    role:
      role term: sponsoring body,
    role:
      role term: sponsor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 83 pages : color illustration, graph ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "This report examines the feasibility for non-state actors, including terrorist and insurgent groups, to increase their political and/or economic power by deploying a virtual currency (VC) for use in regular economic transactions. A VC, such as Bitcoin, is a digital representation of value that can be transferred, stored, or traded electronically and that is neither issued by a central bank or public authority, nor necessarily attached to a fiat currency (dollars, euros, etc.), but is accepted by people as a means of payment. We addressed the following research questions from both the technological and political-economic perspectives: (1) Why would a non-state actor deploy a VC? That is, what political and/or economic utility is there to gain? How might this non-state actor go about such a deployment? What challenges would it have to overcome? (2) How might a government or organization successfully technologically disrupt a VC deployment by a non-state actor, and what degree of cyber sophistication would be required? (3) What additional capabilities become possible when the technologies underlying the development and implementation of VCs are used for purposes broader than currency?"--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper.
  table of contents: Introduction -- The current state of virtual currencies -- Can virtual currencies increase political power? -- Technical challenges to virtual currency deployment -- Implications beyond currency -- Conclusions and future research -- Appendix. Rating cyber threat sophistication by tiers.
  note: Joshua Baron, Angela O'Mahony, David Manheim, Cynthia Dion-Schwarz.
  note: "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."--Title page.
  note: Series title from publisher's website.
  note: "RR-1231-OSD."--Page 4 of cover.
  note: "Approved for public release; distribution unlimited."--Title page.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 73-83).
  subject:
    topic: Electronic funds transfers
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: National security
    topic: Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Non-state actors (International relations)
  subject:
    topic: Terrorism
    topic: Finance
  subject:
    topic: Bitcoin
  classification: HG1710 .B37 2015
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Research report (Rand Corporation) ; RR-1231-OSD
  identifier: 9780833091833
  identifier: 0833091832
  identifier: http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1231.html
  related item:
    location:
      url: http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1231.html
  record info:
    record content source: LRU
    record creation date: 160107
    record change date: 20170928110804.0
    record identifier: in00003615665
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng