The Bitcoin Dilemma : Weighing the Economic and Environmental Costs and Benefits

1. Introduction -- Part I. The Cypherpunk Bible -- 2. In the Beginning -- 3. The Creator -- 4. The Disciples -- 5. he Genesis Block -- Part II. Cryptocurrency Corporatization -- 6. A New Testament -- 7. Public Ledgers, Private Wallets, and Crypto Vulnerabilities -- 8. Bitcoin Goes Corporate -- 9. The Fundamental Flaw of Bitcoin -- 10. The Bitcoin Dilemma -- Part III. Cryptocurrency Consequences -- 11. Towns and Cities Against Noise and Power Hogs -- 12. No More Duffel Bags Full of Cash -- 13. States and Bitcoin -- 14. National Policy and Bitcoin -- 15. The Rise of Ethereum and Hobby Mining -- Part IV. Born-Again Crypto Bros and the Gospel of Profits -- 16. A Hard Fork in the Bitcoin Philosophy -- 17. The First Crypto Bros Millionaires -- 18. The Coin du Jour – The Rise of Initial Coin Offerings -- 19. Decentralized Finance -- 20. The Market Prognosis for Bitcoin -- Part V. Cryptocurrency and the Environment -- 21. Carbon Footprints -- 22. Greenwashing in the Bitcoin industry -- 23. Infighting in the Crypto Bros Family -- Part VI. The Rewriting of the Cryptocurrency Bible -- 24. Central Banks Get into the Act -- 25. The Disruption of the Fractional Banking System -- 26. Shock and Awe and a Call for Regulatory Action -- 27. Bitcoin’s Global Reach -- 28. Conclusion.