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Tethered money : managing digital currency transactions /

Tethered Money: Managing Digital Currency Transactions presents a comprehensive discussion of financial transactions using digital currencies, with the author, Gideon Samid, making the case for their expansion in tethered money. Exploring the technical, legal, and historical aspects of digital money...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Samid, Gideon, 1945- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Academic Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Purpose; Prologue; Roadmap; Quotations; Introduction: Tethered Money
  • a Game Changer; Chapter 1
  • Money: An Irreverent Analysis; Money: the numeric residue of society; Money: mightier than the sword; Money: the great invention; Money is power; Money: man-made mystery; Money: mirage; Money: mirage fraud; Short Range; Reconciliation; Confusion; Self-anchored money; Money on behalf of the people (central banks); Cascaded Digital Money; The Internet of Things, Avatars, and Robotics; Money: changed by cryptography; Is It Working?; Security.
  • The Off-CurrencyMoney: tethered; Interest Rate; History; Money: an innovation turtle; "Catch me if you can": the ultimate currency war; Conspiracy theories; Chapter 2
  • Tethered Money: Use and Impact; Earned versus granted; Investment; Management; Tethering Visibility Management; Tethering Flexibility; Surrogate mint/subcontracted tethering; Innovation; Government; The Tax Code; Healthcare; Gambling; Charity; Death Wish; World bank; Emergency management; Insurance; Trust trap; Tethered trade; Tethering trade; Retethering; Personal payment and privacy; Community bootstrapping; Burn pay.
  • Pay-as-you-goThe new electricity market; Nanopayments; Access versus use; Napster revived; Loyalty programs; Activation; Imaging; Credit; The banking paradox; In the hands of our adversaries; International scope; Financial democracy (voting with our taxes); Chapter 3
  • Digital Money: The Security Nightmare; Cyber insecurity: always with us!; The general purpose computer and its inherent insecurity; Complexity: where security and insecurity meet; Complexity: how do we manage it today?; Remote access and identity management; Big Data, Not Always so Big; The data/software shared storage.
  • Complexity used as a shieldThe quantum threat; The security advantage of digital currency; Deterrence; The Trading Community; Deterrence Through Society at Large; The oracle; Entropic coins; Entropic coins: informative masking; The sub-oracle; Transit security; InterMint security; Tightening the defense perimeter; Digital currency: the complexity route; Durable cryptography; Chapter 4
  • Anatomy of Digital Money Products; Theory and definition of digital coins; Randomized Coins; Nonrandomized Coins; Payment Activity Masking; Bitcoin: the vision; Self-Anchored.
  • Generating Money by Agreement to Reward Computational AccomplishmentUsing Transactional Transparency to Safeguard Trading Integrity; Vulnerability to Erosive Cryptographic Intractability; Vulnerability to Leadership Corruption; Finite Amount of Bitcoins; Bitcoin struggle for impact and survival; Stability; Hooking Bitcoin to an External Source of Value; Internal Bitcoin Stabilizer; Bitcoin Vulnerability to Erosive Cryptographic Intractability; Bitcoin Vulnerability to Leadership Corruption; Attacks on Bitcoin; Digitized fiat money and other commodities; Fiat. Bitcoin Currency.