Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technology
- Length: 180 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: de Gruyter
- Publication Date: 2020-09-07
- ISBN-10: 3110659433
- ISBN-13: 9783110659436
- Sales Rank: #24470685 (See Top 100 Books)
This handbook will provide a comprehensive treatment of the gamut of issues and challenges that exist through the development of both cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.
This will not be confined to simply the investment potential within these new technological areas. We will examine the challenges in the regulatory, legal, taxation, accounting, modelling, ethical, macroeconomic impact and internationalization issues.
Research on cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology has identified issues such as pricing abnormalities and bubble-like behavior, indicating that these new assets are highly speculative in nature, contain a growing number of legal abnormalities (such as the hacking of exchanges and broad theft of investor assets) and a growing number of significant regulatory issues. It is paramount that we investigate each of these issues in great detail to help to determine whether cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology merits consideration as a sustainable alternative investment asset.
The handbook will be useful for specialist technical audiences such as legal, accounting and financial practices. It will also be beneficial for upper level masters and research students in economics, law, accounting, taxation, investment and portfolio management.
Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction to cryptocurrencies Bibliography Notes Blockchain and economic transactions 1 Introduction 2 Technical aspect of blockchain 2.1 Double spending 2.2 Decentralization 2.3 Consensus 2.4 Smart contract 2.5 Existing problem 2.6 Some applications 3 Implications to the real economic transactions 3.1 Background 3.2 Questions 3.3 Role of blockchain in economic transactions 3.4 Miner-side analysis 3.5 User-side analysis 3.6 Analysis of changes 4 Conclusion Bibliography Notes An analysis of the development of cryptocurrency research 1 Introduction 2 The development of cryptocurrency research: A very short review 3 Data selection and methods 3.1 Methods 3.2 Data 4 Results 5 Conclusions Bibliography Notes Financial characteristics of cryptocurrencies 1 Introduction 2 Statistical properties of cryptocurrencies 3 Cryptocurrency market efficiency 4 Bubbles 5 Volatility 6 Interdependencies of cryptocurrency markets 7 Cryptocurrencies and financial assets 8 Summary Bibliography Notes The predictability between Bitcoin and US technology stock returns: Granger causality in mean, variance, and quantile 1 Introduction 2 Literature review 3 The test of Granger causality in moments 4 Empirical results 4.1 Data 4.2 Chen’s Granger causality in moment test results 5 Conclusion Bibliography Notes Market structure of cryptocurrencies 1 Using cryptocurrency for trade 2 Establishing an exchange 3 Trading and fees 3.1 Where do trades get reported? 3.2 What happens if the exchange gets hacked? 4 Types of exchanges 4.1 Centralized vs decentralized exchanges 4.2 Advantages of DEXs 4.3 Disadvantages of DEXs 4.4 Investability of cryptocurrencies 4.5 Cryptocurrency derivatives 5 Cryptocurrency specific trading issues 5.1 Undercutting 5.2 Short selling constraints 5.3 Front running 5.4 Griefing Bibliography Notes The Wild West of ICOs 1 Introduction 2 Previous literature 3 Some brief examples of cryptocurrency and ICO irregularities 3.1 Questionable motives, criminality and ICO disappearance 3.2 Facebook and Project Libra 3.3 Venezuela and the Petro 3.4 KodakCoin and other examples of corporate manoeuvres 4 How has the regulation of ICOs changed over time? 5 Concluding comments Bibliography Notes The ethical and legal aspects of blockchain technology and cryptoassets 1 Introduction 2 Previous literature 3 Blockchain technology and cryptoassets 3.1 What is blockchain 3.2 What are cryptoassets 3.3 What are smart contracts 4 The law 4.1 Different types and current use of cryptoassets 4.2 The rights over cryptoassets 4.3 Law of property 4.4 Are cryptoassets property? 4.5 Legal interest 4.6 The Anti Money Laundering Directive & the Money Laundering Regulations 4.7 Identifiability 4.8 Smart contracts 4.9 Tokenisation 5 Ethical considerations 5.1 Anonymous currency 5.2 Initial Coin Offerings (“ICO”) 5.3 Scams 6 Concluding remarks Bibliography The environmental effects of cryptocurrencies 1 Introduction 1.1 Why should we care about the environmental effects of cryptocurrencies? 1.2 Technological vs ecological environmentalism 1.3 Are all cryptocurrencies equally bad for the environment? 2 Proof-of-work algorithm 2.1 Bitcoin mining 2.2 Ethereum 3 Previous literature 4 What does the data tell us? 5 What are the main identified issues to date? 5.1 Do cryptocurrency miners take advantage of developing regions? 5.2 Global warming effects? 5.3 Could Bitcoin stop hinder functionality of the Internet? 6 Does there exist regulatory solutions? 7 Concluding comments Bibliography Notes Evaluating a decade of cryptocurrency development: Navigating financial progress through technological and regulatory ambiguity 1 Concluding thoughts on the benefits associated with cryptocurrencies 2 Concluding thoughts on the issues associated with cryptocurrencies 3 In conclusion
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