Beyond Bitcoin: The Economics of Digital Currencies

Digital currencies are a fairly new phenomenon brought about by the spectacular rise of the internet. While Bitcoin is the most famous, there are numerous other digital currencies―from Amazon Coin to Zetacoin. Beyond Bitcoin explores the economic forces underlying the design of their features and their potential. Halaburda and Sarvary argue that digital currencies are best understood by considering the economic incentives driving their creators and users. The authors present a framework that will allow systemic analysis of this dynamic environment and support further discussion of the design of digital currencies’ features and the competition in the market.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Types, Variables, and Standard I/O: Lost Fortune
Chapter 2 Truth, Branching, and the Game Loop: Guess My Number
Chapter 3 for Loops, Strings, and Arrays: Word Jumble
Chapter 4 The Standard Template Library: Hangman
Chapter 5 Functions: Mad Lib
Chapter 6 References: Tic-Tac-Toe
Chapter 7 Pointers: Tic-Tac-Toe 2.0
Chapter 8 Classes: Critter Caretaker
Chapter 9 Advanced Classes and Dynamic Memory: Game Lobby
Chapter 10 Inheritance and Polymorphism: Blackjack
Appendix A Creating Your First C++ Program
Appendix B Operator Precedence
Appendix C Keywords
Appendix D ASCII Chart
Appendix E Escape Sequences