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The Cryptopians
The story of the idealists, technologists, and opportunists fighting to bring cryptocurrency to the masses. In their short history, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have gone through booms, busts, and internecine wars, recently reaching a market valuation of more than $2 trillion. The central promise of crypto endures—vast fortunes made from decentralized networks not controlled by any single entity and not yet regulated by many governments. The recent growth of crypto would have been all but impossible if not for a brilliant young man named Vitalik Buterin and his creation: Ethereum. In this book, Laura Shin takes readers inside the founding of this novel cryptocurrency network, which e...
The Cryptopians
The story of the idealists, technologists, and opportunists fighting to bring cryptocurrency to the masses. In their short history, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have gone through booms, busts, and internecine wars, recently reaching a market valuation of more than $2 trillion. The central promise of crypto endures—vast fortunes made from decentralized networks not controlled by any single entity and not yet regulated by many governments. The recent growth of crypto would have been all but impossible if not for a brilliant young man named Vitalik Buterin and his creation: Ethereum. In this book, Laura Shin takes readers inside the founding of this novel cryptocurrency network, which e...
Summary of Laura Shin's The Cryptopians
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The financial crisis of 2008 triggered the slowmotion toppling of global finance. The same year, a person or group named Satoshi Nakamoto published a white paper that described how people could bypass banks and use the internet to send each other money. #2 Financial institutions saw the potential in the blockchain, and began investing in it heavily. They also began exploring the use of ICOs, which allowed projects to raise funds in cryptocurrency by giving people a new token. #3 In 2013, Vitalik Buterin, a cryptocurrency developer, had an idea for a new blockchain technology that could support many kinds of applications. He emailed his idea to thirteen friends. #4 When he was younger, Vitalik was already showing signs of being extremely smart. He loved playing with Excel and producing the sevenyearold’s equivalent of an Excel masterpiece, The Encyclopedia of Bunnies, a treatise on the lives, culture, and economy of the longeared, shorttailed creatures.
Out of the Ether
Discover how $55 million in cryptocurrency vanished in one of the most bizarre thefts in history Out of the Ether: The Amazing Story of Ethereum and the $55 Million Heist that Almost Destroyed It All tells the astonishing tale of the disappearance of $55 million worth of the cryptocurrency ether in June 2016. It also chronicles the creation of the Ethereum blockchain from the mind of inventor Vitalik Buterin to the ragtag group of people he assembled around him to build the second-largest crypto universe after Bitcoin. Celebrated journalist and author Matthew Leising tells the full story of one of the most incredible chapters in cryptocurrency history. He covers the aftermath of the heist as...
Digital Gold
A New York Times technology and business reporter charts the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and the fascinating personalities who are striving to create a new global money for the Internet age. Digital Gold is New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper's brilliant and engrossing history of Bitcoin, the landmark digital money and financial technology that has spawned a global social movement. The notion of a new currency, maintained by the computers of users around the world, has been the butt of many jokes, but that has not stopped it from growing into a technology worth billions of dollars, supported by the hordes of followers who have come to view it as the most important new idea since the creati...
Summary of Laura Shin's The Cryptopians
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The financial crisis of 2008 triggered the slow-motion toppling of global finance. The same year, a person or group named Satoshi Nakamoto published a white paper that described how people could bypass banks and use the internet to send each other money. #2 Financial institutions saw the potential in the blockchain, and began investing in it heavily. They also began exploring the use of ICOs, which allowed projects to raise funds in cryptocurrency by giving people a new token. #3 In 2013, Vitalik Buterin, a cryptocurrency developer, had an idea for a new blockchain technology that could support many kinds of applications. He emailed his idea to thirteen friends. #4 When he was younger, Vitalik was already showing signs of being extremely smart. He loved playing with Excel and producing the seven-year-old’s equivalent of an Excel masterpiece, The Encyclopedia of Bunnies, a treatise on the lives, culture, and economy of the long-eared, short-tailed creatures.
Kings of Crypto
"Tech writer Roberts debuts with a page-turning account of the rise of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase from the Y Combinator startup incubator to becoming a 'pillar of the larger crypto economy.'" — Publisher's Weekly For a moment late in 2018, one bitcoin, which physically amounts to a few electrons blipping on a tiny bit of silicon, was worth $20,000—the same as a pound of gold. Libertarian technologists who believed bitcoin would be the foundation of a new world order saw the moment as an apotheosis. Everyone else saw a bubble. Everyone else was right, and the bubble burst. But bitcoin survived, and the battle for its soul rages on. Kings of Crypto drops us into the unfolding drama, ...
COVID-19 in Southeast Asia
COVID-19 has presented huge challenges to governments, businesses, civil societies, and people from all walks of life, but its impact has been highly variegated, affecting society in multiple negative ways, with uneven geographical and socioeconomic patterns. The crisis revealed existing contradictions and inequalities in society, compelling us to question what it means to return to “normal” and what insights can be gleaned from Southeast Asia for thinking about a post-pandemic world. In this regard, this edited volume collects the informed views of an ensemble of social scientists – area studies, development studies, and legal scholars; anthropologists, architects, economists, geograp...
Digital Cash
The fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators—from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies Bitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact, it is only the best-known recent experiment in a long line of similar efforts going back to the 1970s. But the story behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and its blockchain technology has largely been untold—until now. In Digital Cash, Finn Brunton reveals how technological utopians and political radicals created experimental money to bring about their visions of the future: to protect privacy, bring down governments, prepare for apocalypse, or launch a civilization of innovation and abundance that would make its creators immortal. Filled with marvelous characters, stories, and ideas, Digital Cash is an engaging and accessible account of the strange origins and remarkable technologies behind today's cryptocurrency explosion.
Information Choice in Macroeconomics and Finance
An authoritative graduate textbook on information choice, an exciting frontier of research in economics and finance Most theories in economics and finance predict what people will do, given what they know about the world around them. But what do people know about their environments? The study of information choice seeks to answer this question, explaining why economic players know what they know—and how the information they have affects collective outcomes. Instead of assuming what people do or don't know, information choice asks what people would choose to know. Then it predicts what, given that information, they would choose to do. In this textbook, Laura Veldkamp introduces graduate stu...
