Crypto asset investing in the age of autonomy. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jake Ryan.
• Authors: Ryan, Jake
• Contents: Acknowledgments Author’s Note Comp: Please update folios Introduction – Why This Book and Now We Are Marching Toward Two Worlds Where We Are in the Current Economic Cycle Investing in the New Technological Revolution The Push Toward Autonomy Innovations That Make the Age of Autonomy Possible The Age of Autonomy – Welcome to the Future The Ideal Investment Profile Investing in Crypto Assets in the Age of Autonomy Putting It All Together Part I: The History of Economic Cycles and Monetary Policy Chapter 1: The Fed and You, A Brief History How It Was versus How It Is Monetary Policy – The History of the Federal Reserve The US Dollar as the Global Reserve Currency Sovereign Currencies Are Now All Fiat Currency Chapter 2: Understanding Economic Cycles Terms and Definitions The Economic Cycle Deleveraging – Understanding a Debt Crisis Where Are We in the Long-term Debt Cycle? What’s Outside the Economic Cycle Definition Current Cycle Comparison to Past Cycles Chapter 3: The Long-wave Economic Cycle The Kondratieff Cycle Spring – The Start of Inflation Summer – Runaway Inflation Autumn – Disinflation Winter – Deflation Technological Revolutions – Building on the Long-wave Cycle The Past Long-wave Cycle – The Age of the Internet Moving in Cycles 00 Chapter 4: Safe Is the New Risky 00 The Problem – Historical Truth, Contemporary Fallacy 00 US Treasuries Are a “Risk-free” Asset 00 Owning a Stock Was Always Owning an Asset 00 There Is No Counterparty Risk to Owning Gold 00 Savings Accounts Are Safe 00 The News Is News 00 Okay, Boomer 00 Conclusion 00 Chapter 5: Credit and Commodity Currencies 00 The Purpose of Money 00 Commodity Money (Sound Money) 00 Periods of Sound Money Policy 00 Bi-metal Periods 00 Credit Money (Unsound Money) 00 Problems with Credit Money 00 Periods of Unsound Money Policy 00 Chapter 6: The Fall of Credit Money and the Rise of Multicurrencies 00 The Fall of Credit-based Currencies 00 The Ever-increasing Size of Bubbles 00 The Federal Reserve’s Modern Policies and Positions 00 Unintended Consequences 00 Modern Global Monetary Policy – Money Printer Goes Brrrrr 00 The Decline of the US Dollar as the World’s Reserve Currency 00 The End of a Sovereign Debt Cycle 00 The Future – A Multicurrency World 00 Part II: The Rise of Blockchain and the Age of Autonomy 00 Chapter 7: A Digital Commodity: Bitcoin as Digital Gold 00 A Primer on Bitcoin 00 What’s Unique About Bitcoin 00 Triple-Entry Accounting Bitcoin as a Hedge Against Global Monetary Policy 00 Bitcoin as Sound Money 00 The Bitcoin Halvening Event 20 Scarcity Value and the Stock-to-Flow Model 00 Other Ways to Value Bitcoin 00 Chapter 8: Blockchains 00 Blockchains: The Basics 00 Blockchain Properties 00 Primitives of Blockchain 00 Vulnerabilities 00 Use Cases 00 Conclusion 00 Chapter 9: The Age of Autonomy 00 Long-wave Economic Cycles – 100 Years of Economic Theory 00 Blockchain – The Last Piece of the Puzzle 00 A Brief History The Age of Autonomy: What’s Possible 00 An Example of the Future Decentralized Autonomous Corporation 00 The Knowledge Doubling Curve 00 The Case Against a Continuation of the Old Technological Revolution 00 Conclusion 00 Chapter 10: Clusters of Innovation in the Age of Autonomy 00 Parallels to the Internet Technological Revolution 00 Blockchain Infrastructure for the Age of Autonomy 00 The State of Artificial Intelligence 00 The Intersection of Blockchain and AI 00 The Intersection of Robotics, AI, and IoT/Sensor Data Technologies 00 Ephemeralization 00 Chapter 11: The Case for Investing in Crypto Assets 00 Old Fiat Money Regimes Are Dying 00 Possession Is 9/10ths of the Law 00 Old Investment Strategies Are Becoming Antiquated 00 Risk Management Favors Antifragility and Ephemeralization 00 Seizure-Resistant Assets Have a Premium 00 Blockchain Immutability Solves Information Integrity The Gold versus Bitcoin Argument 00 A Set of New Innovations Is Affecting Everyone 00 Revolution in the Means of Production 00 Invest in Scarcity Public Financial Infrastructure 00 Innovation Creates Asymmetry 00 Crypto Assets: A New Asset Class 00 Part III: Crypto Investment Strategies 00 Chapter 12: A Primer on Crypto Asset Investing 00 What Are Crypto Assets? 00 Crypto Classification: Security versus Commodity 00 Passive Investing and the Crypto Index Fallacy 00 Value Accrual – Value Creation and Value Capture 00 Investing from First Principles 00 Investment Vehicle Options for Crypto Investing 00 Chapter 13: Quantitative Analysis Frameworks 00 Fundamental Valuation Using On-chain Metrics 00 Global Macro Risk Management Models 00 A Model for Fundamental Analysis 00 Interpretations of the Model 00 Summary of Other Valuation Models 00 Token Models and Tokenomics 00 Token Mechanics 00 Conclusion on Models and Frameworks 00 Chapter 14: Understanding Crypto Asset Classes 00 Reserve Crypto Assets 00 Cryptocurrencies 00 Platform Crypto Assets 00 Utility Tokens 00 Governance Tokens 00 Security Tokens 00 Asset-backed Tokens 00 Crypto-Commodities 00 Appcoins/DApps (Decentralized Apps) 00 Nonfungible Tokens (NFTs) 00 Stablecoins 00 Other Approaches 00 Conclusion 00 Chapter 15: Investment Themes 00 Sound Self-Sovereign Money 00 Decentralized/Open Finance 00 Decentralized Governance 00 The Age of Autonomy 00 Web 3.0 – Own Your Own Data 00 P2P Commerce – Disrupting the Disruptors
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 332.4; Cryptocurrencies; Investments
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781119705376; 9781119705444
• Related ISBNs: 9781119705369
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