Beyond Bitcoin: The Blockchain Paradox of Privacy, Power, and Regulation: Designing Smart Governance

Beyond Bitcoin: The Blockchain Paradox of Privacy, Power, and Regulation looks at the precarious nature of privacy and transparency in the cryptocurrency age. Following the timeline of the development of money through the emergence of blockchain, it examines how decentralised financial systems give users control and make data protection, illegal finance, and regulatory control a complicated issue. The book provides an interdisciplinary approach to the privacy-enhancing technologies, privacy coins, and the legal systems of the world, bringing out the conflict between the rights of individuals and responsibility as a society. Moving on to future-focused, technology-based governance schemes, it offers viable lessons on how to balance innovation and regulation. The book is indispensable to scholars, policymakers, and practitioners as it sheds light on the key role of privacy in the future of decentralised finance and provides a guide on how to manoeuvre through the fast-changing cryptocurrency landscape.