Handbook of Digital Currency

David LEE Kuo Chuen is a Professor of Financial Technology and Blockchain at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), an Adjunct Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS), a Council Member of the British Blockchain Association, Vice President of the Economic Society of Singapore, and Editor-in-Chief or Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Fintech and Annual Review of Fintech. He is also Chairman of the Global FinTech Institute (GFI), co-founder of the Singapore Blockchain Association, co-founder of the Blockchain Security Alliance, advisor to the Asian Development Bank, cryptocurrency advisor to the Asian Institute of Digital Finance (AIDF) of NUS, advisor to the SUSS Node for inclusive FinTech (NiFT), independent director of several technology companies in Singapore, angel investor in blockchain, WEB3, inclusive finance and AI innovation, senior advisor and Investment Committee member of Artichoke Capital which is backed by institutional and sovereign wealth fund limited partners.

• Part 1: Digital Currency and Bitcoin1. Introduction to Bitcoin2. Is Bitcoin a Real Currency?3. Bitcoin Mining Technology4. National Cryptocurrencies5. Evaluating the Potential of Alternative Cryptocurrencies6. The Effect of Payment Reversibility on E-commerce and Postal Quality7. Blockchain and Digital Payments8. Counterfeiting in Cryptocurrency: An Emerging Problem9. Emergence, Growth, and Sustainability of Bitcoin10. Cryptocurrencies as Distributed Community Experiments11. Extracting Market-Implied Bitcoin's Risk-Free Interest Rate12. A Microeconomic Analysis of Bitcoin and Illegal ActivitiesPart 2: Finance Markets and Bitcoin13. Legal Issues in Cryptocurrency14. How to Tax Bitcoin?15. Cryptocurrency and Virtual Currency17. Real Regulation of Virtual Currencies19. Advancing Egalitarianism20. How Digital Currencies Will Cascade up to a Global Stable Currency21. Bitcoin-Like Protocols and Innovations22. Blockchain Electronic Vote23. Translating Commons-Based Peer Production Values into Metrics25. What Does Cryptocurrency Mean for the New Economy?26. Bitcoin Past and the Future27. Bitcoin IPO, ETF, and Crowdfunding28. Bitcoin Exchanges