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How Money Got Free
Brian Patrick Eha
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Bitcoin and the Fight for the Future of Finance
出版Simon and Schuster, 2017-04-06
主題Business & Economics / GeneralBusiness & Economics / Money & Monetary PolicyBusiness & Economics / Economics / GeneralBusiness & Economics / International / Economics & Trade
ISBN17807465989781780746593
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7hy9DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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’.

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.