A History of Digital Currency in the United States New Technology in an Unregulated Market /

• Main Author: Mullan, P. Carl (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Series: Palgrave Advances in the Economics of Innovation and Technology
• Subjects: Finance.; E-business.; Electronic commerce.; E-commerce.; Risk management.; Finance > History.; Macroeconomics.; Economic history.; Financial History.; Economic History.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.; Risk Management.; e-Business/e-Commerce.

This book presents detailed case studies of the first commercial internet digital currency systems developed between 1996 and 2004. Transactions completed with the new technology circumvented all US financial regulations, an opening that transnational criminals exploited. Mullan explains how an enti...