Cryptocurrency Risk and Governance Challenges [Paperback]

This book provides an interdisciplinary critical perspective regarding risk, uncertainty, and governance challenges of cryptocurrencies.

Table of Contents

Cryptocurrency Risk and Governance Challenges *

Book blurb and key words *

Preface *

Acknowledgements *

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations *

List of Tables and Figures *

1. Introduction *

1.1 Financial Technology (FinTech) *

1.2 The Market for Cryptocurrencies *

1.3 Abstracts of Chapters *

2. Priority Research *

2.1 Introduction *

2.2 Research Objectives *

2.3 Research Instruments *

2.4 Survey Sample *

2.5 Interview Sample *

3 Demystifying the Nature of Cryptocurrencies *

3.1 Introduction *

3.2 Money as a Public Good *

3.3 Cryptocurrency versus Electronic Money *

3.4 Speculative Assets *

3.5 Digital Asset, Digital Currency and Digital Token as Securities *

3.6 Cryptoassets as Exchange Tokens *

3.7 Crypto-Tokens as Objects of Property Rights *

3.8 Accounting Treatment *

3.9 Summary *

4 Information Asymmetry and Knowledge-Gap Risk *

4.1 Introduction *

4.2 Fundamentals *

4.3 Awareness *

4.4 Literacy *

4.5 Education *

4.6 Summary *

5 Opaqueness and financial crime risk *

5.1 Introduction *

5.2 Opaqueness *

5.3 Financial Crime *

5.4 Enforcement *

5.5 Due Diligence *

5.6 Activism *