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100			_aEha, Brian Patrick
245			_a How money got free : _bBitcoin and the fight for the future of finance _cBrian Patrick Eha (Author)
260			_aLondon, England _bOneworld Publications Ltd _c2017
300			_a486 pages _c24 cm
505			_aPrologue : money and liberty Making money Virtual crack The gray hat Blood and vein A meeting in Ibiza Regulation blues Bitcoin never sleeps The billionaire who wasn't Innovation and its discontents Meltdown The internet of money Death and taxes The plea deal Vindication Hearts and minds Epilogue : discipline and anarchy
520			_a"In the space of a few years, Bitcoin has gone from an idea ignored or maligned by almost everyone to an asset with a market cap of more than $12 billion. Venture capital firms, Goldman Sachs, the New York Stock Exchange, and billionaires such as Richard Branson and Peter Thiel have invested more than $1 billion in companies built on this groundbreaking technology. Bill Gates has even declared it 'better than currency'. But can its early promise endure? Or will the next evolution of money be neutered as it goes mainstream? The pioneers of Bitcoin were twenty-first-century outlaws--cryptographers, hackers, Free Staters, ex-cons and drug dealers, teenage futurists and self-taught entrepreneurs--armed with a renegade ideology and a grudge against big government and big banks. Now those same institutions are threatening to co-opt or curtail the impact of digital currency. But the pioneers, some of whom have become millionaires themselves, aren't going down without a fight. Sweeping and provocative, How Money Got Free reveals how this disruptive technology is shaping the debate around competing ideas of money and liberty, and what that means for our future."--Jacket
650			_aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS
650			_aEconomics Theory _xBitcoin
887			_2CamTech Library
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