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Nik Bhatia is an adjunct professor of finance and business economics at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business. He is a former trader on Wall Street and an expert in monetary economics and blockchain technology.
Known for: Layered Money: From Gold and Dollars to Bitcoin and Central Bank Digital Currencies
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Layered Money: From Gold and Dollars to Bitcoin and Central Bank Digital Currencies
Layered Money explores the evolution of monetary systems from gold to modern digital currencies. Nik Bhatia explains how money has developed in layers—each representing a new form of trust and technology—from physical gold to paper dollars, and now to cryptocurrencies and central bank digital currencies. The book provides a clear framework for understanding how Bitcoin fits into the global financial hierarchy and how future monetary innovations may reshape the world economy.
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The Historical Foundations: Gold and the Birth of Monetary Layers
The story of money begins with gold—not just as a precious metal, but as the ultimate trust anchor. For millennia, human societies selected gold because its physical properties—durability, divisibility, scarcity, and universal recognition—made it the perfect foundation for value exchange. Gold funct...
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From Paper Promises to Central Banks: Building the Modern Hierarchy
By the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, paper money had evolved from private banknotes to sovereign currencies. Governments began establishing central banks to manage these layers more systematically. Britain’s Bank of England became the prototype, issuing notes that were claims on its gold rese...
From Layered Money: From Gold and Dollars to Bitcoin and Central Bank Digital Currencies
About Nik Bhatia
Nik Bhatia is an adjunct professor of finance and business economics at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business. He is a former trader on Wall Street and an expert in monetary economics and blockchain technology.
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Nik Bhatia is an adjunct professor of finance and business economics at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business. He is a former trader on Wall Street and an expert in monetary economics and blockchain technology.
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