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Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: Bitcoin in theory and practice

Chapter 2: Public goods

Chapter 3: The Red Queen of Mining

Chapter 4: A Bitcoin Gap

Chapter 5: Bitcoins made in China

Chapter 6: Living in a trusted, post-51% world

Chapter 7: Network effects

Chapter 8: TCPIPcoin and User Adoption

Chapter 9: Deflation in theory and practice

Chapter 10: Bitcoin’s command economy and knock-on effects

Chapter 11: Zero-sum Entrepreneurship

Chapter 12: Token movements and token safety

Chapter 13: Social engineering and groupthink

Chapter 14: Separating activity from growth on Bitcoin’s network

Chapter 15: What Altplatforms can teach Bitcoin

Chapter 16: Potential alternatives and solutions

Chapter 17: Legal specialization

Chapter 18: Conclusions

About the author

Endnotes

© Copyright 2014 by Tim Swanson

Cover art credit: Matt Thomas and Invisible Order

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The Anatomy of a Money-like Informational Commodity