Del oro al Bitcoin

We have an international monetary system in the process of reinvention and renewal, something that rarely happens. With the consolidation of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, many uncertainties arise about the future of money. What seems clear is that it will be digital, although until now monetary science did not have a flexible theoretical framework to incorporate these new forms of money. Academic and financial market researcher Nik Bhatia offers in this book a topography of money with which to navigate this uncertain crossroads. And he does so by crafting a new theoretical framework called "layered money." This new terminology allows us to describe our dynamic monetary system, helps us navigate the geomorphology of money, and explains how different forms of money relate to each other. The idea of ??money as a layered system provides a clearer method of conceptualizing monetary changes, thus being able to trace a complete history of money from its origins. Bhatia begins her analysis of him by returning to the golden florin of Renaissance Italy and its flourishing banking culture. He continues with the evolution of central banking and concludes with an explanation of how the merger of monetary and cryptographic sciences, and the invention of Bitcoin, created a seismic shift in our financial system.