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What is Cryptocurrency

Handbook of Research on Smart Technology Models for Business and Industry
A digital currency in which encryption techniques are used to regulate the generation of units of currency and verify the transfer of funds, operating independently of a central bank.
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Decentralized Cryptocurrency Security and Financial Implications: The Bitcoin Paradigm
Amany Mohammed Alshawi (King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3645-2.ch001
Abstract
The worldwide growth in electronic commerce has led to the emergence of digital currencies, which have been gaining public and research attention as an alternative method of payment. In recent years, Bitcoin has become a global currency with a multibillion USD market value. This is a result of the many attractive features of the currency including its distributed algorithms, cryptography, and incentive-driven performance. This chapter offers an in-depth investigation of the Bitcoin network along with its security and financial implications. All the components of the network are described along with details of the cryptographic foundations of the system. The chapter also describes the security and privacy implications of Bitcoin and proposes methods to minimize their effect. Finally, the chapter discusses the regulatory and financial implications of the Bitcoin network to show how countries around the world are reacting to the widespread use of cryptocurrencies.
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Blockchain Tokenisation in Grant Management
A digital currency programmed on a blockchain using cryptography and a consensus algorithm to secure and validate transactions. Cryptocurrencies can be used to buy goods and services.
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Blockchain Readiness: Expert Perspectives From a Developing Economy
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Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Development Without Regulation
Sometimes called crypto-currency or crypto, is any form of currency that exists digitally or virtually and uses cryptography to secure transactions. Cryptocurrencies don't have a central issuing or regulating authority, instead using a decentralized system to record transactions and issue new units. Cryptocurrency is a digital payment system that doesn't rely on banks to verify transactions. It’s a peer-to-peer system that can enable anyone anywhere to send and receive payments. Instead of being physical money carried around and exchanged in the real world, cryptocurrency payments exist purely as digital entries to an online database describing specific transactions. When you transfer cryptocurrency funds, the transactions are recorded in a public ledger. Cryptocurrency is stored in digital wallets. Cryptocurrency received its name because it uses encryption to verify transactions. This means advanced coding is involved in storing and transmitting cryptocurrency data between wallets and to public ledgers. The aim of encryption is to provide security and safety. The first cryptocurrency was bitcoin, which was founded in 2009 and remains the best known today. Much of the interest in cryptocurrencies is to trade for profit, with speculators at times driving prices skyward.
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Metrics, Platforms, Emulators, and TestNets for Ethereum
A kind of digital currency using encryption techniques.
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The Regulation of Blockchain in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
A digital, virtual currency which is exchanged and used by means of encryption techniques.
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Re-Thinking Cryptocurrencies as Safe-Haven Investment: Evidence in the U.S. and Emerging Countries
A type of digital currency in which transactions are verified and records maintained by a decentralized system using cryptography.
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Conceptual Insights in Blockchain Technology: Security and Applications
Cryptocurrency is a mechanism designed to work for the online secure payments system using cryptography.
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“Truth,” Lies, and Deception in Ponzi and Pyramid Schemes
A digital currency in which encryption techniques are used to regulate the generation of units of currency and verify the transfer of funds, operating independently of a central bank.
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Crypto Coins and Ethereum: Pioneering Decentralized Finance
A digital or virtual currency secured by cryptography, operating independently of a central bank.
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Effects of Quantum Technology on the Metaverse
Digital or virtual currency that uses cryptography for secure transactions and operates independently of a central bank.
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Blockchain Technology in Securitization in India
A digital currency in which transactions are verified and records maintained by a decentralized system using cryptography, rather than by a centralized authority.
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An Update on Bitcoin as a Digital Currency
Currency that is created through digital processes and algorithms.
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The Role of Blockchain in C2C E-Commerce Business Models
A digital currency, by using it we can pay online without need of third-party. Data is stored in blocks that are connected in chain.
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Cryptocurrency Adoption
A digital or virtual currency that uses cryptography for security and operates independently of a central bank.
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Cryptocurrency: A Detailed Study
Cryptocurrency is a kind of virtual money in simple sense. It is indeed ordinary money like dollars, pounds, euros, yen and so on but it is only available electronically.
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Investigating Consumer Finance in Lebanon: An Empirical Study of ATM and Virtual Currency
A digital (or virtual) and electronic based medium of exchange used to generate financial transaction, operating independently from the central bank.
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Blockchain in Gaming
Cryptocurrency is a kind of currency made to exchange over internet or it could be as digital currency where government is not reliable to store just as normal currency in bank.
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Quantum Blockchain for Smart Society: Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities
Is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of exchange through a computer network that is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it.
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Tackle the Smart Contract Vulnerabilities
A digital currency in which encryption techniques are used to regulate the generation of units of currency and verify the transfer of funds, operating independently of a central bank.
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Technology Adoption: Case of Cryptocurrency
Digital asset that uses cryptographic methods for the transmission of digital information to serve as a form of money for exchange.
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Evolution of Cryptocurrency: Analysing the Utility, Legality, and Regulatory Framework in India
A digital currency used and traded by means of cryptography. It functions in a decentralized system.
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The Effects of Metaverse and Blockchain-Based Cryptocurrencies on Social Life
A digital or virtual currency that is secured by cryptography, which makes it nearly impossible to counterfeit or double-spend.
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Blockchain Technology in Solar Energy
A type of digital currency that uses cryptography for security and anti-counterfeiting measures.
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Accountability Revolution in the Digital Asset Business: Insights From the Cryptocurrency Market
Digital currency which is used virtually and used as both a currency and a virtual accounting system that is exchanged via a computer network and managed via a digital wallet.
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How Can Small and Medium Enterprises in the Chinese Market Achieve Sustainable Development Goals Through Blockchain?
A medium of exchange that uses cryptographic principles to secure transactions and control the creation of units of exchange. A cryptocurrency is a type of digital currency (or virtual currency) such as Bitcoin.
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Perceived Trust and Confidence for Cryptocurrency Adoption: What Lies Ahead?
Digital currency that utilize blockchain technology. In general, cryptocurrency in the market focus on three area: decentralized, scalability and security.
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Blockchain Technology: Concepts, Components, and Cases
This refers to a digital currency, the units of which are created mostly without involvement of any government financial institution. The transaction records for cryptocurrencies are maintained using digital ledgers employing cryptography technique. Therefore, the name ‘cryptocurrency’.
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Predicting Cryptocurrency Prices Model Using a Stacked Sparse Autoencoder and Bayesian Optimization
Cryptocurrency is a digital or virtual currency that uses cryptography for security and operates independently.
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Innovation Finance Beyond Bitcoin: Cryptocurrencies as Alternative Investments
An asset of digital nature that is recorded and transferred on a Blockchain. Cryptocurrency is a monetary application of Distributed Ledgers and part of crypto-assets which may also by non-monetary such as votes and real assets.
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Blockchain Technology and Data Mining Tools for Combating Fraud: With Reference to the Banking Sector
It is an encrypted, decentralized digital currency transferred between peers and confirmed in a public ledger via a process known as mining. This is also known as Digital currency.
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Examining the Impact of COVID-19 on Cryptocurrency Enforcement in the United States
A type of digital currency in which transactions are done in a decentralized system using encrypted data and technology.
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Assessing the Integration of Blockchain and Supply Chain Management: The Case of China
A digital or virtual currency that uses cryptography for security and is typically based on blockchain technology. It is not controlled by any centralized authority, making it theoretically immune to government manipulation or interference.
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Quantum Blockchain: A Systematic Review
Is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of exchange through a computer network that is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it.
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Issues and Challenges (Privacy, Security, and Trust) in Blockchain-Based Applications
Digital currency used to control authentication techniques for the generation of currency units and the confirmation of transactions, working without a central banking authority.
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The Role of Blockchain Technology in Organizational Cyber Security
Cryptocurrencies are digital currency that recorded and verification carried on the transactions using decentralized and distributed networks. The first cryptocurrency was Bitcoin. one of the major reasons for developing cryptocurrency was to address the issue of double spending in digital currency.
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FinTech Status in the Global Market: Challenges and the Future
Pure digital kind of currency that has no backup by any physical commodity.
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Genius Is Not the Excuse for Governance Failure: Case of FTX Trading Limited
Virtual or digital currency not backed by gold or commodity. It is difficult to counterfeit due to its digital footprints.
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Has Bitcoin Achieved the Characteristics of Money?
A non-printed currency produced by solving mathematical problems.
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Cryptocurrency Adoption Behaviour of Millennial Investors in India
It is a decentralised, cryptographically secure digital money. Cryptocurrencies leverage blockchain technology for safe, transparent transactions without a central authority.
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Integration of Blockchain and IoT (BIoT): Applications, Security Issues, and Challenges
Any sort of digital or virtual currency that uses encryption to secure transactions is referred to as cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrencies work without a central authority issuing or controlling them, instead relying on a decentralised system to track transactions and create new units.
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Evolution of Malware in the Digital Transformation Age
Any form of currency that only exists digitally, that usually has no central issuing or regulating authority but instead uses a decentralized system to record transactions and manage the issuance of new units, and that relies on cryptography to prevent counterfeiting and fraudulent transactions.
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Renaming Citizenship: An Evolution From Social Citizenship to Digital Citizenship
A form of payment realized on a decentralized technology called Blockchain that manages and records transactions for goods and services.
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Exploring Cryptocurrency Sentiments With Clustering Text Mining on Social Media
Is a digital medium of exchange (normally without physical forms) in which strong cryptography is used to secure the database of transaction records, to record and control the coin ownership and creation, and to verify coin transfer. Cryptocurrencies typically have no central control and use blockchain as the technology to maintain public transactions in a peer-to-peer manner.
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A Survey of KYC/AML for Cryptocurrencies Transactions
A digital representation of value that is owned and secured using asymmetric cryptography and blockchain to ensure its authenticity and prevent modification or tampering without the owner’s consent as well as forbidding the owner to double-spend.
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Adoption of Libra as a Digital Currency in Thailand
A digital currency performed based on distributed ledger technology (DLT) or blockchain technology. Most cryptocurrencies use a decentralised network where a trusted third party such as a central bank is not necessary for conducting financial transactions.
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NFTs: Transforming Digital Ownership in the Web 3 Era
Cryptocurrency is a form of digital or virtual currency that uses cryptography for security and operates on decentralized networks, typically based on blockchain technology. Unlike traditional currencies issued by governments and central banks, cryptocurrencies rely on cryptographic techniques to secure transactions, control the creation of new units, and verify the transfer of assets.
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Dark Web: A Breeding Ground for ID Theft and Financial Crimes
A digital currency secured by cryptography and managed by blockchain technology that is run on distributed computer networks.
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Integrate Hybrid Cloud Computing Server With Automated Remote Monitoring for Blockchain as a Service
Cryptocurrency is a mechanism designed to work for the online secure payments system using cryptography.
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Regulatory Ambiguity in India: A Breeding Ground for Crypto Criminals
A cryptocurrency is a digital currency, which is an alternative form of payment created using encryption algorithms.
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Modeling Time-Varying Co-Movements Between Major Cryptocurrencies and Foreign Exchange Markets
A digital or virtual currency secured by cryptography, used encryption to verify transactions, and based on decentralized networks instead of reliant on any central authority.
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Implications of Blockchain Technology- Based Cryptocurrency in the cloud for the Hospitality Industry
Cryptocurrency is a digital or virtual currency protected by cryptography and runs on a decentralized network of computers, most of the time using blockchain technology. Cryptocurrencies are not controlled by a single government or central bank like traditional currencies are. Instead, they are often decentralized and run on a technology called blockchain, a distributed ledger maintained by a network of computers called nodes.
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Perspectives of Blockchain in Cybersecurity: Applications and Future Developments
A decentralized, blockchain-based system of digital currency assets where digital coins are stored in distributed ledgers, and units are generated through strongly protected cryptographic means.
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Drug Trafficking
It refers to any digital currency that uses certain encryption methods to secure and validate the transactions and generate new currency of its own kind.
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Considerations for Blockchain-Based Online Dispute Resolution
Digital asset used as a method of exchange stored in an online ledger form.
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Smart Contracts: An Overview
A digital, virtual currency which is exchanged and used by means of encryption techniques.
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Emerging Blockchain Technology vis-à-vis Limitations and Issues: Emphasizing the Indian Context
Cryptocurrency is the encrypted data and which are denotes a unit of currency. Here peer-to-peer network play important role which is called blockchain. This is helpful in securing ledger based digital transactions for the things viz. buying, selling, and transferring.
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Principal Components Analysis: Impact on Alternative Crypto-Currencies
Cryptocurrency, sometimes called crypto-currency or crypto, is any form of currency that exists digitally or virtually and uses cryptography to secure transactions. Cryptocurrencies don't have a central issuing or regulating authority, instead using a decentralized system to record transactions and issue new units.
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Cross-Industry Use of Blockchain Technology and Opportunities for the Future: Blockchain Technology and Aritificial Intelligence
Cryptocurrencies are a subset of digital currencies that rely on cryptographic techniques to achieve consensus, for example Bitcoin and ether. Nodes are network participants in a distributed ledger
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Blockchain Technology and General Issue of Tax Evasion via Bitcoin
A digital currency for which encryption methods are used to regulate the generation of units of currency and verify the transfer of funds, operating independently of a central bank.
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The Intersection of Cybercrime and the Blockchain
A digital currency represented as token stored on a blockchain that uses encryption to regulate the generation and transfer of funds.
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Extracting Insights From Bitcoin Transactions: Data Warehouse Modeling and Analytical Questions
A digital currency in which transactions are verified and records maintained by a decentralized system using cryptography, rather than by a centralized authority.
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Preliminary Insights Into the Adoption of Bitcoin in a Developing Economy: The Case of Ghana
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Introduction to Quantum-Resistant Blockchain
Is a type of digital currency in which, as opposed to a centralized authority, a decentralized system uses encryption to verify transactions and keep records.
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Reflection on the Latent Role of Institutional Trust for the Adoption of Cryptocurrencies: Cases on Bitcoin, JP Morgan Coin, Diem, and Japanese Listed Cryptocurrencies
It is a digital currency. Its creation (or mining) and exchange are performed under blockchain technology. Cryptocurrencies could be considered independent if they are mined by a network of independent users.
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Digital Business Transformation in the Banking Sector
Virtual currency not controlled by a central authority and which constitutes a digital asset. These currencies work usually through a blockchain technology.
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Tokens and Tokenization: Still a Gordian Knot for the Future of FinTech?
Tokens whose function resembles legal tender coins or means of payment, but in a blockchain environment.
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Marketing Trends in the Cryptocurrency Industry
A digital or virtual currency that uses cryptography for security and operates on a decentralized technology called blockchain. Cryptocurrencies are typically decentralized, secure, and resistant to government control.
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Blockchain Use Cases in Healthcare
A medium of exchange where individual money ownership records are stored in a ledger using strong cryptography that secures transaction records.
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