Appendix

Introduction—Blockchain and Trust

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•Bair, Tor. “The True Enemy of Decentralization.” Last Modified February 26th, 2018.

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•Fuller, C. R. “The Economic Foundations of Authoritarian Rule.” (PhD dissertation, University of South Carolina., 2017) 1-14, .

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•Tabora, Vince. “The Evolution of the Internet, from Decentralized to Centralized.” Hacker Noon, October 27, 2019. .

•Thu, Kendall. “The Centralization of Food Systems and Political Power.” Culture & Agriculture 31, no. 1. June 8, 2009. 13–18. .

•“Why Decentralizing Social Media Makes Sense.” Social Media Explorer. Nov.ember 20, 2018. .

Chapter 1: Blockchain & Ventre à Terre

•Abadi, Fthi Arefayne, Joshua Ellul, and George Azzopardi. “The Blockchain of Things, beyond Bitcoin: A Systematic Review.” (Abstract, August 2018).

•Allen, Darcy W. E., Chris Berg, Aaron M. Lane, and Jason Potts. “The Economics of Crypto-Democracy.” SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017. .

•“Bitcoin n-Transactions-Total.” , 2020. .

•BitPay. “What Are Bitcoin Miner Fees?” BitPay Support, April 2020. .

•Buterin, Vitalik. “A Next-Generation Smart Contract and Decentralized Application Platform.” (Whitepaper, 2014). .

•Cachin, Christian, and Marko Marko Vukolić. “Blockchain Consensus Protocols in the Wild.” Cornell University Computer Science. July 7, 2017. .

•Chaum, David. “Computer Systems Established, Maintained, and Trusted by Mutually Suspicious Groups.”(PhD dissertation, University of California—Berkeley, 1979). .

•Computerphile. “Hashing Algorithms and Security—Computerphile” November 8, 2013. Video, 8:11.

•Featherston, Ed. “Blockchain: You Want Me to Trust a “Trustless Trust” System?” Last Modified November 15th, 2017..

•Hankerson, Darrel R., Scott A. Vanstone, and A. J. Menezes. Guide to Elliptic Curve Cryptography. New York: Springer, 2011. 1-15, 75-196.

•“How Many Businesses Accept Bitcoin? Full List (2020).” Fundera, January 1, 2020. .

•Katarya, Rahul, and Aamir Mustafa. “Blockchain and Consensus Algorithms.” SSRN Electronic Journal, March 30, 2020. .

•Krawisz, Daniel. “The Proof-of-Work Concept.” The Proof-of-Work Concept | Satoshi Nakamoto Institute, June 24, 2013. .

•Leon, Daniel Conte De, Antonius Q. Stalick, Ananth A. Jillepalli, Michael A. Haney, and Frederick T. Sheldon. “Blockchain: Properties and Misconceptions.” Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 11, no. 3. April 2017. 286–300. .

•Marr, Bernard. “How Much Data Is There In The World.” Bernard Marr & Co. Intelligent Business Performance (blog), August 2019. .

•Martinez, Julian. “Understanding Proof-of-Work, Part 1: Demystifying Solving a Block.” Medium, May 2018.

•Matile, Raphael, and Christian Zurich. “Privacy, Verifiability, and Auditability in Blockchain-Based E-voting.” University of Zurich, Department of Informatics—Communication Systems Group, April 4, 2018. .

•Meola, Andrew. “Distributed Ledger Technology & the Blockchain Explained.” Business Insider. January 16, 2020. .

•Nakamato, Satoshi. “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” Satoshi Nakamoto Institute. Last Modified October 31st, 2008. .

•Nakamato, Satoshi. “Re: Slashdot Submission for 1.0.” Satoshi Nakamoto Institute. Last Modified July 5th, 2010. .

•Orcutt, Mike. “How Secure Is Blockchain Really?” MIT Technology Review. April 2, 2020. .

•SSD, Electronic Frontier Foundation. “A Deep Dive on End-to-End Encryption: How Do Public Key Encryption Systems Work?” Surveillance Self-Defense, February 19, 2019. .

•Trubetskoy, Gregory. “Blockchain Proof-of-Work Is a Decentralized Clock—Gregory Trubetskoy.” Gregory Trubetskoy, January 23, 2018. .

•Tushar. “How Many Transactions in One Block?” Bitcoin Stack Exchange. April 1, 2015. .

•Y0coin. “Ted Talks: The Blockchain Explained Simply.” December 23rd, 2016. Video, 15:31. .

•Zambrano, Brian. “Blockchain Explained: How Does Immutability Work?” VeryPossible, February 27,2018. .

•Zhang, Shijie, and Jong-Hyouk Lee. “Double-Spending With a Sybil Attack in the Bitcoin Decentralized Network.” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 15, no. 10. October 2019. 5715–22. .

Chapter 2—The Economics of Value

•Amadeo, Kimberly. “Why the Dollar Is Worth So Much Less Than It Used to Be.” The Balance. April 13, 2020. .

•Annie. “Just 8 Percent of Americans Are Invested in Cryptocurrencies, Survey Says.” CNBC. CNBC, March 16, 2018. .

•Banton, Caroline. “The Definition of Economic Value.” Investopedia. January 29, 2020. .

•Bitcoin Documentary. Discovery Science Channel / Bitcoin Documentary, 2017. .

•Brown, Ben, Delton Rhodes, Armin Davis, Rebecca Campbell, and Ana Balashova. “Bitcoin Units and Denominations: A Simple Breakdown From 1 BTC to 1 Satoshi.” BlockExplorer News, September 19, 2018. .

•Bruce, Jim. “Money For Nothing—Inside the Federal Reserve.” November 8, 2013. Video, 1:43.00. .

•Geller, Martinne. “Toilet Paper Trophy Hunters on a Roll as U.S. Shortages Start Easing.” Reuters. Thomson Reuters, April 29, 2020. .

•Hostetler, Baker. “COVID-19 Update: Pricing during COVID-19 Without Gouging or Fixing.” JD Supra, April 2020. .

•Macleod, Alasdair. “Gold-versus-the-Money-Supply.” Goldmoney. Accessed June 2, 2020. .

•Mazikana, Anthony Tapiwa. “The Impact of Cryptocurrencies in Zimbabwe. An Analysis of Bitcoins.” SSRN Electronic Journal, May 24, 2018. .

•Menger, Carl. “The Subjective Theory of Value.” Innovator. July 1967, Applications, Experiments, and Advanced Developments of Liberty edition. 38-42.

•Parker, Emily. “Can China Contain Bitcoin?” MIT Technology Review. MIT Technology Review, April 2, 2020. .

•Posch, Anita. “Part 1 Zimbabwe: Ideal Conditions for Bitcoin?—Bitcoin in Africa: The Ubuntu Way.” March 5, 2020. In Bitcoin Co. Podcast, MP3 audio, 48:00. .

•Posch, Anita. “Part 2 Living in a Multi-Currency World—Bitcoin in Africa: The Ubuntu Way.” March 26, 2020. In Bitcoin Co. Podcast, MP3 audio, 43:00. .

•Posch, Anita. “Part 3: Using Bitcoin in Zimbabwe- Bitcoin in Africa: The Ubuntu Way.” April 2, 2020. In Bitcoin Co. Podcast, MP3 audio, 43:00. .

•RBI Confirms No Ban on Cryptocurrency Exchanges. “US Lawmaker Introduces Crypto-Currency Act of 2020 While Under Coronavirus Quarantine: Regulation Bitcoin News.” Bitcoin News, March 10, 2020. .

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•Rosic, Ameer. “What Is Cryptocurrency? [Everything You Need To Know!].” Blockgeeks, May 5, 2020. .

•Satoshi. “Warren Buffett Slates Bitcoin, Denies Owning Crypto Gifted by Justin Sun: Featured Bitcoin News.” Bitcoin News, February 24, 2020. .

•Senator Carper. “Chairman Carper Opening Statement at Senate Committee Hearing on Virtual Currency.” November 18th, 2013. Video, 10:40. .

•“Total-Bitcoins.” . Accessed June 2, 2020. .

•Varian, Hal R. “Why Is That Dollar Bill in Your Pocket Worth Anything?” The New York Times, January 15, 2004.

Chapter 3: Digital Pioneers—The Stories of Decentralization

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•Armstrong, Brian. “What Happened in Crypto over the Last Decade.” Medium. The Coinbase Blog, March 5, 2020. .

•Bernard, Zoë. “Everything You Need to Know about Bitcoin, Its Mysterious Origins, and the Many Alleged Identities of Its Creator.” Business Insider. Business Insider, November 10, 2018. .

•Bitcoin. “Bitcoin Github Repository.” GitHub, June 1, 2020. .

•“Bitcoin n-Transactions-Total.” , 2020. .

•Blagdon, Jeff. “Technical Problems Cause Bitcoin to Plummet from Record High, Mt. Gox Suspends Deposits.” The Verge. March 12, 2013. .

•Canellis, David. “Satoshi Nakamoto Left Bitcoin Because of the CIA, a Theory.” Hard Fork | The Next Web, July 19, 2019. .

•Chen, Adrian. “Massive Bitcoin Business Partnership Devolves Into $75 Million Lawsuit.” Gawker. May 2, 2013. .

•Distributed. “Distributed 2018: Keynote Presentation—David Chaum.” August 20, 2018. Video, 25:01. .

•Epicenter Podcast. “David Chaum: The Forefather of Cryptocurrencies and the Cypherpunk Movement (#304).” September 10, 2019. Video, 1:03.57. .

•“Ethereum Sharding Explained: Understanding Ethereum.” district0x Education Portal. Accessed June 2, 2020. .

•Floyd, David. “10 Years After Lehman: Bitcoin and Wall Street Are Closer Than Ever.” CoinDesk. CoinDesk, September 13, 2018. .

•Floyd, David. “Genesis Block: Chancellor on Brink of Second Bailout for Banks · Monnos.” Monnos, April 15, 2020. .

•“Global Bitcoin Nodes Distribution.” Bitnodes, June 2, 2020. .

•Jeffries, Adrianne. “Inside the Bizarre Upside-down Bankruptcy of Mt. Gox.” The Verge. March 22, 2018. .

•Li, Kenny. “The Blockchain Scalability Problem & the Race for Visa-Like Transaction Speed.” Hacker Noon, June 1, 2020. .

•Lielacher, Alex. “Why Has Satoshi Nakamoto Remained Anonymous?” Brave New Coin, April 15, 2018. .

•McCullagh, Declan. “Homeland Security Cuts off Dwolla Bitcoin Transfers.” CNET. CNET, May 14, 2013. .

•Mechkaroska, Daniela, and Aleksandra Popovska-Mitrovikj. “Analysis of the Possibilities for Improvement of BlockChain Technology.” Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR), November 26, 2018, 1–4. .

•Michael Noel. “Vitalik Buterin The Boy Genius Behind Ethereum.” November 8, 2017. Video, 59:55. .

•Moore, Galen. “10 Years On, Laszlo Hanyecz Has No Regrets About His $45M Bitcoin Pizzas.” CoinDesk. CoinDesk, May 22, 2020. .

•Nakamoto, Satoshi. “Bitcoin Open Source Implementation of P2P Currency: Satoshi Nakamoto Institute.” Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P currency | Satoshi Nakamoto Institute, February 11, 2009. .

•Nelson, Danny, and Nikhilesh De. “Coinbase Broke Traffic Records and Saw Massive Volume During Market Collapse.” CoinDesk, March 20, 2020. .

•Noah, James. “Mt. Gox Interviews: Jed McCaleb on the Creation of Mt. Gox.” Hacker Noon, February 26, 2019. .

•Norry, Andrew. “The History of the Mt Gox Hack: Bitcoin’s Biggest Heist.” Blockonomi, March 31, 2020. .

•Ometoruwa, Toju. “Solving the Blockchain Trilemma: Decentralization, Security & Scalability.” Coin Bureau, June 12, 2018. :~:text=The ‘Scalability Trilemma’ is a,security, without compromising either one.&text=Security (defined as being secure,to O(n) resources).

•Paybis. “How Many Blockchain Developers Are There In 2020?” Paybis Blog, May 18, 2020. .

•Peck, Morgan. “The Uncanny Mind That Built Ethereum.” Wired. Conde Nast, June 16, 2017. .

•Popper, Nathaniel. “How Mt. Gox Imploded.” Vice, May 19, 2015. .

•Popper, Nathaniel. “The People Leading the Blockchain Revolution.” The New York Times. The New York Times, June 28, 2018. .

•Sfox. “Bitcoin Governance: What Are BIPs and How Do They Work?” SFOX Edge, April 16, 2019. .

•“The Decentralized Dream, Realized.” Elixxir. Accessed June 2, 2020. .

•Walters, Joanna. “Occupy America: Protests against Wall Street and Inequality Hit 70 Cities.” The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, October 8, 2011. .

•Wang, Kyle. “Ethereum: Turing-Completeness and Rich Statefulness Explained.” Hacker Noon, June 1, 2020. .

Chapter 4: Use Cases—Synergy & Final Frontiers

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•BitDegree. “What Is a Smart Contract and How Do Smart Contracts Work.” BitDegree Tutorials. BitDegree, January 21, 2020. .

•“Blockchain Use Cases in 2020: Real World Industry Applications.” ConsenSys. Accessed June 1, 2019. .

•Blockgeeks. “Real World Blockchain Applications—Healthcare.”“ February 22, 2019. 5:04. .

•Cecchetti, Steve, and Kim Schoenholtz. “The Stubbornly High Cost of Remittances.” Money, Banking and Financial Markets. Money, Banking and Financial Markets, February 19, 2018. .

•Cohan, Peter. “Big Risk: $1.2 Quadrillion Derivatives Market Dwarfs World GDP.” . AOL, July 15, 2016. .

•Hoar, Sean. “Identity Theft: The Crime of the New Millennium.” HeinOnline, 2001. .

•Insurance Information Institute. “Facts Statistics: Identity Theft and Cybercrime.” III, January 2018. .

•Jensen, Kurt. “More Data More Problems: Fixing EHRs and Information Blocking in Healthcare.” Health Professions Network, February 20, 2020. .

•Kennedy, Shirley. “Your Password Has Expired and Must Be Changed.” Information Today, Inc., April 2016. ).

•Kuo, Tsung-Ting, Hyeon-Eui Kim, and Lucila Ohno-Machado. “Blockchain Distributed Ledger Technologies for Biomedical and Health Care Applications.” Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 24, no. 6 (August 2017): 1211–20. .

•M., Casey, J. Crane, G. Gensler, S. Johnson and N. Narula. “The Impact of Blockchain Technology and Finance: A Catalyst for Change.” Geneva Report on the World Economy No. 21, 2018.

•Melrose, Lyndel. “A Blueprint for Digital Identity: Deloitte Papua New Guinea: Financial Services.” Deloitte Australia, November 7, 2017. .

•Monica, Kate. “Regenstrief to Develop Automated Patient EHR Matching Solution.” EHRIntelligence, August 14, 2017. .

•Moskov, alex. “What Is Ripple (XRP)?: A Complete Guide to the Banking Cryptocurrency.” CoinCentral, May 29, 2020. .

•Nikolova, Maria. “ASX Takes Its Investment in Digital Asset to $30.9m.” FinanceFeeds, December 13, 2019. .

•“Nostro Account—Overview, How It Works, Example.” Corporate Finance Institute. Accessed June 2, 2020. .

•“Only 48% of ICOs Were Successful Last Year—but Startups Still Managed to Raise $5.6 Billion | Currency News | Financial and Business News | Markets Insider.” Business Insider. Business Insider. Accessed June 2, 2020. .

•Randall, David, Pradeep Goel, and Ramzi Abujamra. “Blockchain Applications and Use Cases in Health Information Technology.” Journal of Health & Medical Informatics 08, no. 03 (2017). .

•Robinson, Edward, and Matthew Leising. “Blythe Masters Tells Banks the Blockchain Changes Everything.” . September 1, 2015. .

•SelfKey Foundation. “Self Key.” (Whitepaper, September 11, 2017). .

•“Sending Money Back Home.” Clovr. Clovr, February 24, 2020. .

•Su, Eva. Accredited investor definition and private securities markets, Accredited investor definition and private securities markets § (n.d.).

•Szabo, Nick. “The Idea Of Smart Contracts.” Nick Szabo. Accessed June 2, 2020. .

•“Venture Capital Vs Business Loans: A Beginner’s Guide to Financing Alternatives.” Business Funding, Working Capital Loans, Small Business Loans, March 13, 2019. .

•Zuckerman, Molly Jane. “Ripple CEO Talks Liquidity And Regulation: Ultimately Governments Aren’t Going Away.” Cointelegraph. Cointelegraph, March 6, 2018. .

Chapter 5: On Loss and How It Happens

•Adamczyk, Alicia. “Index Funds Are More Popular than Ever-Here’s Why They’re a Smart Investment.” CNBC. September 19, 2019. .

•Benz, Christine. “How to Benchmark Your Portfolio.” Morningstar, Inc., February 25, 2019. .

•BluFX. “What Is Trading Psychology?” BluFX Blog. Accessed June 21, 2020. .

•Edspira. “Time Value of Money (Concept Explained).” September 17th, 2013. Video, 7:00. .

•Fitzpatrick, Luke. “The Tipping Point For Mass Blockchain Adoption.” Forbes. Forbes Magazine, September 3, 2019. .

•Franklin, Phillip, Thomas Andrews, Eva Hart, and Lawrence Beesley. “The Titanic—Quotes From Survivors.” The Titanic. Accessed June 2, 2020. .

•“I’m Always Thinking about Losing Money as Opposed to Making Money.” Valens Research, March 29, 2019. .

•Marginal Revolution University.”What Is Opportunity Cost?” August 14th, 2018. Video, 2:45. .

•Rob P. Gekwiak. “Lost Money Investing in Cryptocurrency.” August 30, 2016. Video, 5:01. .

•SophonEX. “Does Cryptocurrency Have More Black Swan Events than Other Assets?” Medium. SophonEX, March 3, 2019.

Chapter 6: Investing Psychology—The Right & Wrong

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•Bhala, Kara Tan, Warren Yeh, and Raj Bhala. International Investment Management: Theory, Ethics and Practice. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016. 45.

•Cureen Capital. “Investment Journals: Not for the Weak.” June 4, 2019. Video, 13:12.

•Elton, Edwin J., Martin J. Gruber, and Christopher R. Blake. “Survivor Bias and Mutual Fund Performance.” Review of Financial Studies 9, no. 4 (1996): 1097–1120. .

•Gal, David. “What Does Loss Aversion Mean for Investors?” Psychology Today. Sussex Publishers, May 16, 2019. .

•Grohol, John M. “FOMO Addiction: The Fear of Missing Out.” World of Psychology, July 8, 2018. .

•Grohol, John M. “Why ‘Sleeping on It’ Helps.” LiveScience. Purch, October 26, 2009. .

•Hoffstein, Corey. “Investors Beware the House Money Effect.” Forbes. Forbes Magazine, January 21, 2016. . .

•Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking, Fast and Slow. Random House, 2011. 426.

•Kaplan, Michael. “Bitcoin Crash: This Man Lost His Savings When Cryptocurrencies Plunged.” CNNMoney. Cable News Network, September 11, 2018. .

•Kumar, Sweeny. “Anchoring Bias And Their Effects On Investment Decisions Series—Part 10.” ValueWalk, February 1, 2020. .

•Kumar, Sweeny. “Behavioural Biases and Their Effects on Investment Decisions Series—Part 3.” ValueWalk, February 1, 2020. .

•Richards, Anthony J. “Winner-Loser Reversals in National Stock Market Indices: Can They Be Explained?” IMF Working Papers 97, no. 182 (1997): 1. .

•Royce IP. “The Conjunctive and Disjunctive Events Bias.” Farnam Street, January 18, 2016. .

•“Sample Size Fallacy.” Oxford Reference. Accessed June 3, 2020. .

•Shefrin, Hersh. “Beyond Greed and Fear: Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing.” Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

•Vakkur. “Behavioral Finance—Evidence For Heuristics.” Behavioral finance. Accessed June 3, 2020. .

Chapter 7: On Words from The Wise

•Chen, James. “Risk.” Investopedia. Investopedia, March 27, 2020. .

•Efrat. “Efrat Cybulkiewicz.” America-Israel Cultural Foundation, April 26, 2019. .

•Erasmus, Desiderius. Adagia. Basileae: In aedibus Ioannis Frobenii, mense Octobri, 1520.

•Franklin, Benjamin, Lewis F. White, John DePol, and Bruce Rogers. The Way to Wealth: Preface to Poor Richard Improved, 1758. New York, 1953.

•Galloway, Scott. “An Economic Bubble Is about to Burst, and These Are the Very Clear Warning Signs.” Business Insider. Business Insider, May 30, 2019. .

•Stocktwits. “The Parabolic Arc Pattern or How To Profit from Euphoria and Bubbles.” Medium. The Stocktwits Blog, May 18, 2017. .

•“Top Anecdotal Signs of a Market Bubble.” bmcamcom, September 9, 2017. .

Chapter 8: Principles

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•Arnuphaptrairong, Tharwon. “Top Ten Lists of Software Project Risks : Evidence from the Literature Survey.” IMECS 1 (March 16, 2011).

•Chang, Ellen. “What to Know About Investment Fees.” U.S. News & World Report. U.S. News & World Report, March 3, 2020. .

•Chappelow, Jim. “Savings Rate.” Investopedia. Investopedia, March 10, 2020. .

•Chorpenning, Ashley. “Why Time Horizons Matter in Investing.” SmartAsset. SmartAsset, January 8, 2020. .

•Fischer, Ben. “Kathryn Minshew: The ‘Wizardess of Oz’.” , April 4, 2014. .

•Ferri, Rick. “Six Rules to Disciplined Investing.” Forbes. Forbes Magazine, April 24, 2018. .

•Kennon, Joshua. “Dollar Cost Averaging Explained.”The Balance. December 2, 2019. .

•Movement Capital. “Value Averaging: An Alternative to DCA or Lump Sum.” Movement Capital, December 3, 2019. .

•Rosenberg, Eric. “The Case Against Rebalancing Your Portfolio.” The Balance. The Balance, April 6, 2020. .

•Thayqua. “Warren Buffett: How to Pick Stocks & Get Rich (1985).” January 16, 2018. Video, 6:28. .

•“The Most Important Determinant of Investment Returns.” Index Fund Advisors, Inc.—Fiduciary Wealth Services, DFA Funds. Accessed February 7, 2018. .

•“Vanguard Principles for Investing Success.” Vanguard Investing, 2017. .

•“What Is Portfolio Diversification?” Fidelity. Accessed June 4, 2020. .

Chapter 9: Qualitative Analysis—Risk

•Bloomberg, Jason. “Seven Lies ICO Fans Tell Themselves (And Anyone Else Who Will Listen).” Forbes. Forbes Magazine, June 29, 2018. .

•Brooks, Frederick Phillips. The Mythical Man-Month Essays on Software Engineering. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley, 2013.

•Caspian. “The Four Barriers For Institutions Entering Crypto.” Medium. Caspian.tech Blog, July 8, 2018. .

•CFI. “Liquidity—Definition, Example, Market vs Accounting Liquidity.” Corporate Finance Institute, February 26, 2020. .

•Chorpenning, Ashley. “What Is a Risk Profile?” SmartAsset. SmartAsset, January 31, 2020. .

•Edwards, Ian. “Boom, Bust and Blockchain: RChain Cooperative’s Cryptocurrency Dreams Dissolve into Controversy.” GeekWire, February 28, 2019. .

•Jenkinson, Gareth. “Bitconnect Ponzi Scheme—No Sympathy From Crypto Community.” Cointelegraph. Cointelegraph, January 19, 2018. .

•Johnston, Kevin. “The Concepts of Return on Investment & Risk.” Small Business—. October 26, 2016. .

•Kenton, Will. “The Ins and Outs of Business Risk.” Investopedia. Investopedia, February 5, 2020. .

•Moos, Mitchell. “RChain Cooperative May Need to Liquidate RHOC Holdings to Remain Solvent.” CryptoSlate, September 11, 2019. .

•Orsini, Lauren, and Code. “GitHub For Beginners: Don’t Get Scared, Get Started.” ReadWrite, July 26, 2018. .

•Poveda-Bautista, Rocio, Jose-Antonio Diego-Mas, and Diego Leon-Medina. “Measuring the Project Management Complexity: The Case of Information Technology Projects.” Complexity. 2018. 1–19. .

•Prince, Dan. “Project Complexity: What Makes Software Development Complex . . . and How Your Developer Can Make It Easier .” illumisoft. Illumisoft, August 8, 2018. .

•“Qualitative vs Quantitative Analysis.” , March 9, 2012. .

•Shepherd, Maddie. “ICO Statistics (2020): Funding, Investment, and Best ICOs.” Fundera, December 31, 2019. .

•Smigel, Leo. “Slippage: What It Is & How to Avoid It.” Analyzing Alpha. Analyzing Alpha, November 29, 2019. .

•Thakur, Dinesh. “Dinesh Thakur.” Computer Notes. Accessed June 4, 2020. .

•Torbati, Yuval, David Bodek, and Mark Puccia. “Methodology: Industry Risk.” Ratings Direct. S&P Global Ratings, 2016. .

•Zerucha, Tony. “Skills Shortage Hurting Blockchain Growth? Industry Weighs In.” Bankless Times, April 19, 2018. .

•Zwanenburg Decentralization, Jorn van. “7 Signs of Bad Cryptocurrency.” Invest In Blockchain, November 1, 2017. .

Chapter 10: Narrative

•Cotto, Andrew. “A Conversation With Dennis Lehane.” grubstreet, January 10, 2012. .

•Damodaran, Aswath. Narrative And Numbers: the Value of Stories in Business. HarperCollins India, 2018.

•“Home.” Golem. Accessed June 4, 2020. .

Chapter 11: Quantitative Models & Metrics—Error of Projection

•Binance Academy. “Proof of Stake Explained.” Binance Academy. January 19, 2020. .

•“Charts.” Coin Metrics. Accessed June 4, 2020. .

•“Discounted Cash Flow DCF Formula—Guide How to Calculate NPV.” Corporate Finance Institute, October 22, 2019. .

•Ernst & Young. “The Valuation of Crypto-Assets,” 2019. .

•“Ethereum Transactions Per Day:” YCharts. Accessed June 4, 2020. .

•Fawkes, Jeff. “The 8 Most Important Cryptocurrency Metrics to Look For.” Bitsonline, February 1, 2019. .

•Karamat, Sheba. “How Are Crypto Prices Determined?—Cryptocurrency Guide.” Coin Rivet, March 23, 2019. .

•Kim, Daniel Sangyoon. “Fundamentally Valuing Bitcoin at $45,000 / BTC.” Hacker Noon, May 4, 2020. .

•Kuznetsov, Nikolai. “Ethereum 2.0 Staking, Explained.” Cointelegraph. Cointelegraph, May 25, 2020. .

•“Quantitative Analysis—Definition, Techniques and Applications.” Corporate Finance Institute, February 19, 2020. .

•Rao, Leena. “PayPal Now Processing $315 Million In Payments Per Day.” TechCrunch. TechCrunch, September 25, 2011. .

•Seth, Shobhit. “Why NEO Can Do What No Other Cryptocurrency Can Do.” Investopedia. Investopedia, January 29, 2020. .

Chapter 12: Entry & Exit

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•“Cryptocurrencies.” MarketWatch. Accessed January 12, 2019. .

•Goldfarb, and David A Kirsch. “Economic Bubbles Are Irrational, but We Can Understand Them—Brent Goldfarb & David A Kirsch: Aeon Essays.” Aeon. Aeon, June 4, 2020. .

•InvestorsLive. “[Weekly Lesson] Why Timing Is the Most Important Factor in Trading.” Investors Underground, February 11, 2020. .

•Lefèvre Edwin. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator. Mineola: Ixia Press, 2018.

•Stapel, Elizabeth. “Mean, Median, Mode, and Range.” Purplemath. Accessed June 4, 2020. .

•Stocktwits, Inc. “The Importance of Setting a Stop Loss and What It Means to Traders and Investors.” Medium. The Stocktwits Blog, July 22, 2016. .

•“What Is SMA?—Simple Moving Average.” Fidelity, 2009. .

Chapter 13: Taxation & Regulation

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•Avan-Nomayo, Osato. “Cryptocurrency Mixers and Why Governments May Want to Shut Them Down.” Cointelegraph. Cointelegraph, May 28, 2019. .

•BitTrust. “Passing the Howey Test: How to Regulate Blockchain Tokens.” Medium. BitTrust, March 4, 2017. .

•Center, Coin. “Today in Congress Rep. Sherman Called for a Bill to Ban All Cryptocurrencies.” Twitter. Twitter, May 9, 2019. .

•Chen, James. “Capital Gain.” Investopedia. Investopedia, January 29, 2020. .

•Constine, Josh. “Facebook Announces Libra Cryptocurrency: All You Need to Know.” TechCrunch. TechCrunch, June 18, 2019. .

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Chapter 14: Investing within Yourself

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