01756cam a22002898i 45000010009000000050017000090080041000260100017000670200030000840350013001140400027001270420008001540500022001621000028001842450094002122630009003062640051003153000015003663360026003813370028004073380027004355000020004625200913004826500013013956500034014086550024014422391429220251102153559.0241105s2025    nyu           001 0 eng    a  2024051611  a9780231220125q(hardback)  a23914292  aDLCbengerdacDLCdAU  apcc00aHG1710b.S47 20251 aSelvam, Vijay,eauthor.10aPrinciples of Bitcoin :btechnology, economics, politics, and philosophy /cVijay Selvam.  a2506 1aNew York :bColumbia University Press,c©2025  a300 pages   atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aIncludes index.  a"Bitcoin is enduringly topical yet, in the author's opinion, incredibly misunderstood. He was a cynic himself until people likening it to digital gold sent him down a literature rabbit hole. While he now has greater faith in it, he sees the obsessive focus on it as a speculative instrument alone as the wrong reason to do so. The book is intended to be the introduction he wishes he had; the elusiveness of bitcoin, he asserts, stems from its intersection with numerous fields and disciplines. Consequently, this book will analyze the topic from a multi-disciplinary perspective: its technology, economics, politics and philosophy, on the basis that it is impossible to fully understand Bitcoin and its significance without understanding how these different disciplines impact it. As such, he aims to weave together these multifaceted themes into a cohesive overview anchored in first principles thinking"-- 0aBitcoin. 0aEconomicsxPolitical aspects. 0aPrint books.2local