Prologue: The Future of Wealth Depends on Digital Assets

Chapter 1: Blockchain and Bitcoin: Why is everyone paying attention?
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Blockchain: A New World That Runs Like a Game
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Bitcoin, money born on the internet
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Real Money, Not Fake? The Secret to Bitcoin's Value
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How is Bitcoin changing the financial industry?
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Why did the US choose Bitcoin as a national strategic asset?

Chapter 2: The Evolution of Money: From Analog to Digital
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Smart contracts, contracts that are automatically executed
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A world without middlemen is coming.
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What if the world was connected through a single financial platform?
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Are real assets also digitizing? What is RWA?
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Why is BlackRock digitizing real assets?
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What if the investment market transformed into one giant platform?

Chapter 3: Tokenizing Every Asset in the World
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Stablecoins: Why Do We Need "Value-Stable Coins"?
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Current and Future Challenges of Stablecoins
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You can even trade a building piece by piece?
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Gold, Reborn in the Digital World
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A New Way to Own Art and Music: NFTs
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The Era of Rights Tokenization: From Bonds to Intellectual Property and Reservation Rights
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How does data become an 'asset'?
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What determines the value of a token?

Chapter 4: How Will the Future Change in the Digital Asset Era?
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Can everyone seize the opportunity to become rich?
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What do you need to know now and how should you prepare?
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Where are Korea's future jobs and industries headed?

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"The world is divided into those who have Bitcoin and those who don't."

Professor Inho, Korea's leading authority on blockchain research, presents his first popular textbook.
The future of wealth lies at the heart of digital assets!

It is an era where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Currency values ​​are falling, national debt is snowballing, and the wealth gap is widening by the day.
With labor income failing to keep pace with rising asset returns, how can we preserve and grow our money? "Bitcoin: The Future of Wealth" provides a clear answer to this question.
"Understand the essence of the digital asset revolution and directly participate in its transformation." Professor Inho, a pioneer in Korean blockchain research and professor of computer science at Korea University, defines the current era as the "digital asset revolution era."
He emphasizes that the future of wealth lies in "digital assets," and that understanding this trend and seizing opportunities within it is not a choice but a matter of survival.

"The Future of Wealth: How Bitcoin Changes Its Future" is an economics textbook that comprehensively explores the origins, present, and future of digital assets.
The blockchain revolution that began with Bitcoin reveals in detail how the "future of wealth" is being reorganized around digital assets.
From the operating principles of blockchain to the value of Bitcoin, the global Real World Asset (RWA) market trends, and the new opportunities facing Korean industries, this must-read book for the digital asset revolution guides readers to develop an eye for the future of wealth through concrete examples and in-depth analysis.

Digital Assets: Where Are We Now?
From cryptocurrencies to tokenization of real assets
From financial and industrial restructuring to job strategies

The form of money is changing from analog to digital.
Real estate, gold, art, data, even bonds and reservation rights.
All assets in the world are fragmented and traded on the blockchain.
The threshold for asset ownership is lowering and opportunities are expanding.
Currency has become code, transactions are recorded as data, and trust is proven by algorithms.
As the form of money and assets changes, what do we need to know and how should we prepare?

Q1.
Why is Bitcoin called "digital gold" rather than "fake money"?

Bitcoin was born within the existing monetary order, which was shaken by inflation.
In the existing monetary system, where the value of currency fluctuates depending on the government's fiscal policy and the central bank's currency issuance, Satoshi Nakamoto shifted the trust structure of currency from the state to mathematics and code.
The Bitcoin he designed cannot be issued arbitrarily by anyone.
The total issuance is limited to 21 million, and the issuance is halved at regular intervals.
It is not an infinitely circulating supply of money, and its value is not diluted by inflation.
That's why people call Bitcoin "digital gold" rather than "fake money," and focus on it as a store of value in the digital asset era.

The technology that supports this value is ‘blockchain.’
Blockchain is a distributed ledger system in which participants around the world share the same ledger and jointly record and verify transaction history, making falsification impossible.
The system that emerged based on this 'code of trust' is the 'smart contract'.
It is a program designed to code the contents of a contract and automatically execute it when the conditions are met.
As a result, a 'decentralized finance' structure that enables transactions between individuals without intermediaries such as banks has become a reality.
Bitcoin is no longer a 'virtual currency'.
It is a digital currency that preserves its value with scarcity and stability like gold, built on trust that operates without government guarantees.

Q2.
Is the era coming when all the world's assets—real estate, gold, data—will be traded in fragments?

The influence of blockchain extends beyond finance to the realm of real assets and data.
A prime example is RWA. RWA converts assets like real estate, gold, and art into digital tokens, demonstrating the potential of a digital asset market where anyone can buy and sell assets anytime, anywhere.
In Korea, the real estate platform 'Casa Korea' tokenized the 'Yeoksam Londonville' building, allowing hundreds of individuals to participate as co-owners, and overseas, the world's largest asset management company 'BlackRock' introduced the Ethereum-based income security fund 'BUIDL', opening the door to a 24-hour asset market.

Going one step further, even data and experiences are being converted into digital assets.
Until now, most personal data has been dependent on platforms and used for corporate profits.
But now, individuals can own their own data and be rewarded with tokens for their activities and contributions.
Wellness NFTs are a representative example.
Transactions of previously invisible rights are now transparently conducted on the blockchain.
In fact, a dinner voucher from a high-end restaurant in LA was issued as an NFT and sold for about $4,250.

Q3.
In the digital asset era, what skills and job strategies are required of individuals?

Digital assets aren't just changing the way we invest.
It is redefining how money stores and moves value, how trust is proven and maintained, and even how humans participate in the economy.
This shift is leading to a restructuring of asset transactions, ownership, and value transfer into a faster, more transparent, and fairer structure, giving rise to new business models.
Of course, challenges remain, such as regulatory uncertainty, security vulnerabilities, and financial literacy gaps.
However, this change is irreversible.
What matters now is not the technology, but the individual who understands and utilizes that technology.
The centralized financial system will gradually collapse, and the trust function that was previously held by the state or institutions will be transferred to individuals.
We must manage our own wallets, take responsibility for the security of our assets, and personally assess the risks and opportunities of our transactions.

Professor Inho further states that now is a crucial time for Korea to redesign the future financial and industrial order.
This is because Korea's creative industries, including K-content, are growing into core business models in the digital asset ecosystem.
New jobs will be created in the "digital assetization field," where data is created, managed, and proven to have value.
Future competitiveness also depends not on the technology itself, but on the individuals and industries that can understand and connect with that technology.


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