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Contents
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Bitcoin – an Anticipated Evolution of the Currency Space
2.1 Hayek’s Vision of Currency Competition and Bitcoin’s Technology
2.2 Evolution of Currency Space: from Deterritorialisation to Denationalisation
2.3 Anticipated Prerequisites for the Evolution of Digital Alternative Currencies
3. Bitcoin – a New Technological Innovation
3.1 Centralisation as the Failure of Historic Digital Alternative Currencies
3.2 Bitcoin’s Innovation: Cryptography, Open Source, and Decentralisation
3.2.1 Security
3.2.2 Anonymity
3.2.3 Portability
3.2.4 Reliability
3.2.5 Trust
3.2.6 Value
3.2.7 Transactors
3.3 Bitcoin as Largest Digital Currency and Growing Number of Transactors
3.4 Disruptive Market Potential vs. Notions of Ponzi Scheme and Fraud
4. Bitcoin – an Old Imperialist Dynamic of Capital Expansion
4.1 Capital’s Need for Worldwide Expansion
4.2 Bitcoin and Imperialist Capital Flows
4.3 U.S. as a Hegemon for Capital Expansion Technology
5. Conclusion
Bibliography
- Quote paper
- Carl Philipp Trump (Author), 2014, Bitcoin in International Monetary Relations. New Innovation or Old Imperialism?, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/899632
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