The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order

The currency'sunderlying technology provides plenty of intellectual fodder-and is unlikely to go away. The authors have successfully demystified cryptocurrencies like bitcoin so that even a traditionalist like myself can understand them and embrace their potential. Casey, veteran Wall Street Journal reporters, resist the common temptations to hype their trendy subject. I recommend you check it out.” Jerry Brito, Executive Director, Coin Center. So there is plenty to write about if you are serious. For those confused by bitcoin concepts, this clearheaded and readable book sets forth credible reasons why bitcoin might or might not be an evolving economic miracle.” Arthur Levitt, 25th Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission“An invaluable book: a fascinating field guide to the phenomenon in which three of the most powerful forces shaping our world toda

Casey deliver the definitive answer to this question. A cyber-enigma with an enthusiastic following, it pops up in headlines and fuels endless media debate. You can apparently use it to buy anything from coffee to cars, yet few people seem to truly understand what it is. But it is here to stay, and you ignore it at your peril.Vigna and Casey demystify cryptocurrency-its origins, its function, and what you need to know to navigate a cyber-economy. Bitcoin became a buzzword overnight. It implies, above all, monumental and wide-reaching change-for better and for worse. Cybermoney is poised to launch a revolution, one that could reinvent traditional financial and social structures while bringing the world's billions of "unbanked" individuals into a new global economy. But bitcoin, the most famous of the cybermonies, carries a reputation for instability, wild fluctuation, and illicit business; some fear it has the power to eliminate jobs and to upend the concept of a nation state. This raises the question: Why should anyone care about bitcoin? In The Age of Cryptocurrency, Wall Street journalists Paul Vigna and Michael J. Cryptocurrency holds the promise of a financial system without a middleman, one owned by the people who use it and one safeguarded from the devastation of a 2008-type crash. The digital currency world will look very d

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He has been interviewed by Bitcoin magazine and appeared on the Bitcoins & Gravy podcast, and boasts a collective 20 years of journalism experience.. He is the author of two books: Che's Afterlife: The Legacy of an Image (Vintage, 2009), one of Michiko Kakutani's "best books of 2009," and The Unfair Trade: How Our Broken Financial System Destroys the Middle Class (Crown, 2012). He is a columnist and anchor for