01913cam a22003378i 4500 23914292 20251102153559.0 241105s2025 nyu 001 0 eng 2024051611 9780231220125 (hardback) 23914292 DLC eng rda DLC AU pcc Alfaisal Main Library HG1710 .S47 2025 Selvam, Vijay, author. Principles of Bitcoin : technology, economics, politics, and philosophy / Vijay Selvam. 2506 New York : Columbia University Press, ©2025 300 pages text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes index. "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"-- Bitcoin. Economics Political aspects. Print books. local 4 lcc BOOKS 607776 607776 0 0 lcc 0 0 AU AU GEN 2025-11-02 0 HG1710 .S47 2025 AU00000000020820 2025-11-02 15:37:36 112.00 2025-11-02 BOOKS