Driverless finance

fintech's impact on financial stability

Everyone is talking about fintech, and they're usually saying good things. Driverless Finance provides a balance to that conversation, exploring the threats that different fintech innovations pose for our financial system. With in-depth and accessible descriptions of new financial technologies and business models - ranging ...

La promesa del Bitcoin

el futuro del dinero y cómo puede funcionar a tu favor

En este libro, Bobby C. Lee, uno de los primeros y más exitosos pioneros en el campo de las cripto monedas, desacredita los mitos y disipa los temores que rodean al Bitcoin, argumentando que este sistema lógico y racional es superior a los sistemas monetarios ...

Beyond money

a postcapitalist strategy

'A fascinating portal into arguments about why we need to get beyond money' - Harry Cleaver What would a world without money look like? This book is a lively thought experiment that deepens our understanding of how money is the driver of political power, environmental destruction ...

Criptoactivos

de la paralegalidad a la paulatina legalización

Pese a los temores y resiliencias propios de ciertos elementos reaccionarios del conjunto social, la historia nos demuestra que no se puede poner puertas al campo ni apostar diques frente a los avances tecnológicos. Inveteradamente, las utilidades que aporta la tecnología al conjunto social acaban ...

Democratizing finance

the radical promise of fintech

We are only in the early stages of a broader revolution that will impact every aspect of the global economy, including commerce and government services. Coming financial technology innovations could improve the quality of life for all people. Over the past few decades, digital technology ...

Del oro al Bitcoin

cómo y por qué las criptomonedas harán desaparecer los sistemas monetarios tradicionales

Tenemos un sistema monetario internacional en vías de reinvención y renovación, algo que rara vez ocurre. Con la consolidación del Bitcoin y otras criptomonedas, surgen muchas incertidumbres acerca del futuro del dinero. Lo que parece claro es que será digital, aunque la ciencia monetaria no ...

Cloudmoney

cash, cards, crypto and the war for our wallets

Many of us rarely use cash these days. And the reach of corporations into our lives via cards and apps has never been greater. But what we're told is natural and inevitable is actually the work of powerful interests: the great battle of our ...

Beyond Bitcoin

Decentralised Finance and the End of Banks

The first book for a popular audience on the transformative, democratising technology of 'DeFi' After over a decade of Bitcoin, which has now moved beyond lore and hype into an increasingly robust star in the firmament of global assets, a new and more important question ...

Regulating the crypto economy

business transformations and financialisation

This book focuses on the building of a crypto economy as an alternative economic space and discusses how the crypto economy should be governed. The crypto economy is examined in its productive and financialised aspects, in order to distil the need for governance in this ...

Promoting global monetary and financial stability

the Bank for International Settlements after Bretton Woods, 1973-2020

As the global organisation of central banks, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has played a significant role in the momentous changes the international monetary and financial system has undergone over the past half century. This book offers a key contribution to understanding these changes ...

Cryptocurrency: All-in-One for Dummies

Learn the skills to get in on the crypto craze The world of cryptocurrency includes some of the coolest technologies and most lucrative investments available today. And you can jump right into the middle of the action with Cryptocurrency All-in-One For Dummies, a collection of ...

CryptoDad

the fight for the future of money

Dubbed "CryptoDad" for his impassioned plea to Congress to acknowledge and respect cryptocurrencies as the inevitable product of a fast-growing technological wave and a free marketplace, Chris Giancarlo is considered one of "the most influential individuals in financial regulation." CryptoDad: The Fight for the Future ...

Manual de uso de los NFT

cómo crear, vender y comprar Non Fungible Tokens, los activos digitales del futuro

Cómo crearlos, venderlos o invertir en ellos Este práctico manual sirve de guía para todo aquel que quiera adentrarse en el uso de los NFT, un nuevo concepto de bien no fungible basado en tecnología blockchain que sirve para comercializar con seguridad todo tipo de ...

Once a bitcoin miner

scandal and turmoil in the cryptocurrency wild west

Part autobiography and part investigation, Once a Bitcoin Miner explains the opulence of Bitcoin's late-2017 boom and the bleakness of the subsequent bust. We begin with scandal and conflict in Canada's cryptocurrency Wild West and spiral outward, including exclusive, on-the-ground access to the ...

Butler to the world

how Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AS SEEN ON LED BY DONKEYS 'Brilliant' Marina Hyde, Guardian 'A savage analysis of Britain's soul. As essential as Orwell at his best' Peter Pomerantsev 'Horribly brilliant' James O'Brien How did Britain become the servant of the world's ...

The future of money

how the digital revolution is transforming currencies and finance

We think we've seen financial innovation. We bank from laptops and buy coffee with the wave of a phone. But these are minor miracles compared with the dizzying experiments now underway around the globe, as businesses and governments alike embrace the possibilities of new ...

When money talks

a history of coins and numismatics

Coinage - it is one of the most successful and consistent technologies ever invented. Nothing else we still use in everyday life has a history quite like it. Look around at all the things that would bewilder a Greek, Roman, or Renaissance ancestor; then, dig into ...

Dinero digital y gobernanza TIC en la UE

La obra colectiva analiza las claves del actual régimen y diferentes propuestas de Reglamento en materia de finanzas digitales, medios y servicios de pago, blanqueo de capitales, resiliencia operativa, ciberseguridad y plataformas e identidades digitales que desde la Unión Europea se impulsan para liderar ?la ...

Criptomonedas

qué son, cómo utilizarlas y por qué van a cambiar el mundo

Todo lo que necesitas saber para invertir en criptomonedas con éxito. Las criptomonedas y la blockchain son tecnologías recientes que todavía no han demostrado su verdadero potencial. Desconocemos aún todas sus aplicaciones futuras, pero pensar que su adopción masiva solo es cuestión de tiempo es ...

El patrón Bitcoin

la alternativa descentralizada a los bancos centrales

Cuando en 2008 un programador informático desconocido anunció que había creado un nuevo sistema de dinero electrónico con tecnología peer-to-peer (P2P), pocos prestaron atención. En la actualidad, el Bitcoin es ya una alternativa descentralizada a los bancos centrales y al dinero físico. El patrón Bitcoin ...