Crypto uncovered : the evolution of bitcoin and the crypto currency marketplace /
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| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; List of Charts; List of Tables; 1: History of Money; Barter; Moving Beyond Barter; The Illustrious History of Shell Money; From Shells to Coins and Paper; The Role of Gold in Money; Determining the Value of Money; Bibliography; 2: Tales from the Crypt: The Dawn of Crypto Currency; Development of Bitcoin; Bitcoin Versus Fiat; History of Fiat Money; How Bitcoin and Crypto Currencies Can Change the Existing System; 3: Silk Road to Wall Street: Accepting Crypto Currency as a Tradable Asset
- Trying to Determine ValueImportant Developments in the Evolution of Trading Crypto Currencies; Nuances in Trading Crypto Currencies; How Trading of Traditional Financial Securities Is Structured; What's Different in Trading Crypto Assets; Using Wall Street for Crypto Investing; Governments Get Involved; Regulations Emerge and Are Often Welcome; ICOs: Crypto Currencies' Hottest Trend; Bibliography; 4: Crypto Currency: What Do We Know About Investment Performance and Risk?; Introduction; Prior Empirical Literature on Crypto Currency Pricing and Returns
- Bitcoin Returns and Risks Relative to Established Financial AssetsComparative Financial Performance of Alternative Crypto Currencies; Establishment of Exchange-Traded Funds, Options, and Future Contracts on Crypto Currency; Conclusions and Future Directions in Research; Bibliography; 5: Managing the Crypto Marketplace; Early Days of Bitcoin; Establishing a Baseline Value for Bitcoin; Silk Road; Creating a Store of Value; The Market Awakens; Participant Management; Role Management; Actions and Entitlements; Events and Activities; 6: Crypto Currency: The Birth of an ICO; Crypto Currency
- How Crypto Currency WorksTypes of Crypto Currency; Transactional; Platform; Utility Tokens; Ethereum; Smart Contract; How to Launch an ICO; Build the Product; Write the White Paper; Perform Legal Checks; Create the Token; Security Audit; Leadership; Manage the Community; ICO Crowd Sale; Ethereum Development Model; Solidity Programming Language; Smart Contract; Creating a Truffle Project; Creating the Smart Contract; Compile the Smart Contract; Migration; Testing the Smart Contract; Develop the User Interface; Installation of Web 3; Instantiation of Contract; UI Update
- Manipulating the Adopt FunctionCompletion of the Application; Create an ERC 20 Token on Ethereum; LUCKY Coin: Decentralized Pet Care Blockchain Solution Features; ERC 20 Token Definition for LUCKY DOG; Token Smart Contract Specification; Minimum Viable Token; Create an ICO (Crowd Sale) Contract on Ethereum; LUCKY Token contract definition; ICO Smart Contract Specification; ICO Smart Contract Code; ICO Smart Contract Flow Diagram; 7: Creation of a Distributed Ledger; Blockchain; Hash; Block; Mining; Bitcoin; Crypto Currency Wallet; Types of Wallets; Wallet Security; Appendix