Bitcoins: legalities and economics / Jose Cabrera Montemayor Jr.

Bitcoin -- Etymology -- Units -- History of Bitcoin -- Pre-History -- Creation -- How does bitcoin work -- The basics for a new user -- Balances-Block chain -- Transactions-Private Keys -- Processing- Mining -- going down the rabbit hole -- Growth -- Bitcoin value history -- Forks -- March 2013 -- Regulatory Issues -- Theft and Exchange -- Taxation and regulation -- Arbitary blockchain -- design -- Transactions -- Transaction fees -- Ownership -- Mining -- Pooled Mining -- Supply -- Wallets -- Implementations -- Decentralization -- Privacy -- Fungibility -- Scalability -- Economics -- Bitcoin: Economics, Technology, and Governance -- Bitcoin Activity to date -- Bitcoin Design Principles -- enabling Technologies and process -- Transactions and the block chain -- Bitcoin's approach to transaction flow and validation -- New Transactions -- Built-in Incentives -- What Bitcoin doesn't have centralization and decentralization in the bitcoin ecosystem -- Currency exchanges -- Digital wallet services -- Mixers -- Mining pools -- Uses of Bitcoin -- The ten most popular product categories on the silk road...

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency and worldwide payment system. It is the first decentralized digital currency, as the system works without a central bank or single administrator. The network is peer-to-peer and transactions take place between users directly without an intermediary.