"For a very long time, silver was money, but in the late nineteenth century, much of the world adopted some variant of the gold standard. China, however, remained the most populous country still using silver, although the country had no unified national currency; there was not one standard, but...

"New technologies are shaking the foundations of traditional finance. Leading economist Eswar S. Prasad foresees the end of cash, as central banks develop their own digital currencies to compete with Bitcoin and Facebook's Diem. Money and finance are on the verge of dramatic transformations that...

Die Blockchain wird als Innovation des Jahrzehnts gehandelt und hat das Potential die Welt auf ähnliche Weise zu verändern, wie dies das Aufkommen des Internets tat. Dieses Buch beinhaltet sämtliche Informationen, die zum Verständnis dieser faszinierenden Technologie benötigt werden. Der...