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National security implications of virtual currency : examining the potential for non-state actor deployment
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baron, Joshua William, Author.
- Dion-Schwarz, Cynthia, Author.
- Manheim, David, Author.
- O'Mahony, Angela, Author.
- Series:
- Research report National security implications of virtual currency
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Digital currency--Political aspects.
- Digital currency.
- National security--Economic aspects.
- National security.
- Non-state actors (International relations)--Finance.
- Non-state actors (International relations).
- Terrorism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Other Title:
- National Security Implications of Virtual Currency
- Place of Publication:
- RAND Corporation 2015
- [Place of publication not identified] RAND National Defense Research Institute 2015
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "This report examines the feasibility for non-state actors, including terrorist and insurgent groups, to increase their political and/or economic power by deploying a virtual currency (VC) for use in regular economic transactions. A VC, such as Bitcoin, is a digital representation of value that can be transferred, stored, or traded electronically and that is neither issued by a central bank or public authority, nor necessarily attached to a fiat currency (dollars, euros, etc.), but is accepted by people as a means of payment. We addressed the following research questions from both the technological and political-economic perspectives: (1) Why would a non-state actor deploy a VC? That is, what political and/or economic utility is there to gain? How might this non-state actor go about such a deployment? What challenges would it have to overcome? (2) How might a government or organization successfully technologically disrupt a VC deployment by a non-state actor, and what degree of cyber sophistication would be required? (3) What additional capabilities become possible when the technologies underlying the development and implementation of VCs are used for purposes broader than currency?"--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The current state of virtual currencies
- Can virtual currencies increase political power?
- Technical challenges to virtual currency deployment
- Implications beyond currency
- Conclusions and future research
- Appendix. Rating cyber threat sophistication by tiers.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-8330-9369-X
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