Digital Currency: Understanding Bitcoin ATM Technology and the Future of Money

Chapters Brief Overview:

1: Digital currency: Introduction to digital currency's role in redefining financial systems.

2: Cryptocurrencies in Europe: Examines the EU's evolving crypto policies and their global implications.

3: Virtual currency: Defines virtual currencies and highlights their political and legal significance.

4: Central bank digital currency: Explores the policy motives behind national digital currency initiatives.

5: Economics of bitcoin: Breaks down Bitcoin's economic model and its challenge to traditional systems.

6: Virtual currency law in the United States: Reviews U.S. legal frameworks shaping digital finance.

7: Private currency: Discusses alternative currencies and their politicaleconomic implications.

8: Cryptocurrency in Nigeria: Focuses on Nigeria’s crypto adoption and government reactions.

9: Colored Coins: Analyzes tokenization of assets and its disruption of conventional authority.

10: History of bitcoin: Chronicles Bitcoin’s rise and the political responses it triggered.

11: History of central bank digital currencies by country: Tracks CBDC development and strategic aims.

12: Consumertobusiness: Covers crypto’s influence on commerce and transactional freedoms.

13: Cryptocurrency and crime: Investigates crypto’s role in illicit economies and regulatory debates.

14: Cashless society: Considers the political shift toward digitalonly economies.

15: Cryptocurrency: Outlines the core features of cryptocurrency and societal ramifications.

16: Digital rupee: Looks at India’s digital currency and its policy underpinnings.

17: Cryptocurrency wallet: Details the tools for selfsovereignty in digital transactions.

18: Privacy and blockchain: Unpacks the tension between transparency and individual rights.

19: Circle (company): Profiles a key player shaping policycompliant crypto infrastructure.

20: Cryptocurrency exchange: Explores exchanges as battlegrounds of regulation and access.

21: Bitcoin: Examines Bitcoin’s status as a political and financial symbol of decentralization.

This book isn’t merely a technical manual—it’s a guide for interpreting a world where politics and digital finance collide. Ideal for professionals, scholars, enthusiasts, and students, Digital Currency invites readers to think critically about sovereignty, economics, and the future of money.