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042 _apcc
049 _aAlfaisal Main Library
050 0 0 _aHG1710
_b.S47 2025
100 1 _aSelvam, Vijay,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aPrinciples of Bitcoin :
_btechnology, economics, politics, and philosophy /
_cVijay Selvam.
263 _a2506
264 1 _aNew York :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c©2025
300 _a300 pages
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _aIncludes index.
520 _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"--
650 0 _aBitcoin.
650 0 _aEconomics
_xPolitical aspects.
655 0 _aPrint books.
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