Cryptodad The Fight For The Future Of Money 1st Edition Christopher Giancarlo by Christopher Giancarlo 9781119855088, 9781119855101, 9781119855095, 111985508X, 1119855101, 1119855098 instant download after payment.

The future of the global economy lies in the ongoing dynamics of the intersection of markets, technology, and public policy. The interplay of these vectors determines the cost and availability of the food we eat, heat for our homes, electricity for our smart phones, financing for our homes and ultimately the money we use to pay for them. Chris Giancarlo spent a thirty-year career in that intersection as a Wall Street lawyer and finance executive before emerging as leader of one of the world's most important market regulators, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, known as the CFTC. It was there that he began to glimpse what is perhaps its most profound change: the Internet of Value and the rise of Bitcoin and other crypto currencies. This change is fundamentally more transformative than the first wave of the Internet that started in the late 20th Century -- the Internet of Information. The next digital wave will do to material things what the Internet of Information did to immaterial things: make them accessible, distributable, and movable instantly across the globe. Think of the ability to send money or property as easily as sending a text message to somebody on the other side of the world or into the future to your unborn grandchildren. This book is also about digital change and how it will affect the lives of everyone in the global economy. It is also the story of how a Margaret Thatcher-admiring, free market Republican, who witnessed the carnage of Wall Street on 9/11 and then helped build one of the world's leading trading platforms for over-the-counter derivatives found himself in the epicenter of the 2008 financial crisis. That experience led him to become a supporter of financial market reforms in the Dodd-Frank Act, the last major "patch" of the old analog, accounts-based financial system. It also led to a rare feat: nomination by President Barack Obama to the CFTC and a subsequent appointment as Chairman by President Donald Trump with unanimous Sena