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"This handbook focuses on the key issues that continue to hinder the formal development of cryptocurrencies as a mainstream financial asset. It primarily examines reputationally damaging events, particularly those related to illicit behavior. The goal of the handbook is to determine whether some of these events could be mitigated by improved or at least coordinated international regulation"--.

• Contents
• Introduction: The growth and development of cryptocurrency regulatory research
• Regulation and innovation: The challenge of crypto-assets
• Considering the governance transparency of smart contracts: A critical reflection
• ICO fraud and regulation
• Flash crashes in cryptocurrency markets and the 2019 Kraken Bitcoin flash crash
• Mt. Gox – The fall of a giant
• Cryptocurrency money laundering and exit scams: Cases, regulatory responses and issues
• The incomplete history of “My Big Coin”
• Cryptocurrency Ponzi schemes
• Criminality and cryptocurrencies: Enforcement and policy responses – Part I
• Criminality and cryptocurrencies: Enforcement and policy responses – Part II
• An overview and analysis of the process of hacking mining hashing power
• Understanding elevated operational and reputational risks through the corporate usage of cryptocurrency
• The Chinese sovereign digital currency as a catalyst for change: A new trilemma?
• The danger of cryptocurrency pump-and-dumps: Analysing the development of research & regulation
• Regulation of cryptocurrencies