Crypto Currency: Another Block in the Continuum of Value Exchange

Abstract

This short chapter simply takes a look at the opportunity and the risk inherent in adopting a new way of exchanging value or transacting trade. This chapter is also going to dispense with the hyperbole surrounding crypto currency—there will be no discussion of revolutionary technology, new economic paradigms, or disrupting history; rather, this chapter simply wants to look at this new medium of exchange and how it may or may not do anything more than provide another alternative to people for the buying and selling of goods and services.