00974nam a2200181 4500 20251229150840.0 251229b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780262539876 Textual RTL RTL RTL Townsend, Robert M. 860155 Distributed ledgers: Design and regulation of financial infrastructure and payment systems London The MIT Press 2020 x, 223 p. Includes bibliographical reference and index Distributed ledger technology (DLT) has the potential to transform economic organization and financial structures. In this book, Robert Townsend steps back from the hype and controversy surrounding DLT (and the related, but not synonymous, innovations of blockchain and Bitcoin) to offer an economic analysis of what distributed ledgers can do and a blueprint for the optimal design and regulation of financial systems. CC 0 TEXL 1466580 1466580 0 0 CC 0 0 RTL RTL 2025-12-29 0 RT1528559 2025-12-29 15:08:53 2025-12-29 TEXL