The bitcoin standard : the decentralized alternative to central banking / by Saifedean Ammous.
By: Ammous, Saifedean [author.].
Publisher: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2018]Description: 286 pages cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 5781182473862 (cloth).Subject(s): Bitcoin | Bitcoin -- Government policy | Electronic commerceGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | HG1710 .A46 2018 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000012211 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Money -- Primitive moneys -- Monetary metals -- Government money -- Digital money -- Sound money and time preference -- Money as capitalism's information system -- Sound money and individual freedom -- What is bitcoin good for? -- Bitcoin questions.
"Bitcoin is the digital age's novel, decentralized, and automated solution to the problem of money: accessible worldwide, controlled by nobody. Can this young upstart money challenge the global monetary order? Economist Saifedean Ammous traces the history of the technologies of money to seashells, limestones, cattle, salt, beads, metals, and government debt, explaining what gave these technologies their monetary role, what makes for sound money, and the benefits of a sound monetary regime to economic growth, innovation, culture, trade, individual freedom, and international peace"--