Finance 4. 0 - Towards a Socio-Ecological Finance System : A Participatory Framework to Promote Sustainability.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- From Fiat to Crypto: The Present and Future of Money -- The Mystery of Money: What It Is and How It Works -- The Nature of Money -- The Fiat Money System -- A Modest Critique of Money -- Fiat Money Is Debt-Based -- Distortion of Price Signals -- The Economy Is Complex, Not Just Complicated -- Separation of State and Money in the Digital Age -- The Many Futures of Money -- Bitcoin, a Radical Idea Refusing to Die -- Finance 4.0, a Socio-Ecological Financial System -- References -- Qualified Money-A Better Financial System for the Future -- From Money to Bitcoin and Beyond -- A New Kind of Money: How the Idea Was Born -- What's Wrong with Our Financial Architecture? -- An Unfeasible Control Problem -- More "Control Variables" Needed -- Two Kinds of Electronic Money -- Europe's "Little" Mistake -- Vitamins for the Financial System -- We Could All Be Doing Well -- Money with a Memory -- Benefits of Money with Reputation -- Balancing Transparency and Anonymity -- A "Social Bitcoin" Could Sustain a Democratic Digital World -- Modern Socio-Economic Challenges Require a New Approach -- A Multidimensional Financial System -- Decentralized Information Architectures and Qualified Money: A Social Bitcoin -- Decentralized Architectures -- Social Bitcoins and Web 4.0 -- How a Social Bitcoin Could Sustain Digital Diversity -- Outlook and Future Research Directions -- References -- Finance 4.0-A Socio-Ecological Finance System -- The Finance 4.0 Ambition -- The Finance 4.0 Framework -- Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) -- Value-Sensitive Design -- The Cryptoeconomic Design of Finance 4.0 -- Relevance of Cryptoeconomic Design -- Designing Cryptoeconomic Systems -- The Finance 4.0 Token Economy -- Simulating the Token Design Space -- The Finance 4.0 Technology Landscape -- The Finance 4.0 Architecture.

The Finance 4.0 Development Phases -- The Finance 4.0 Demonstrator -- The Finance 4.0 Governance System -- Blockchain Governance and Practical Implications -- Proof Mechanisms -- Research Outlook: Long-Termism -- Summary -- Author Contributions -- References -- An Interaction Support Processor to Promote Individual and Systemic Benefits -- Some Background -- Appendix -- Claims -- Glossary.

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