Cryptocurrency Without Illusions
por Carlos de Anta Puig
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What if the opportunity you can't afford to miss is exactly the one you should examine most carefully?
Packed hotel ballrooms, screens announcing an extraordinary future, charts that always seem to point upward, and speakers talking about financial freedom, innovation, and exceptional returns. The message never changes: there's still time to get in, but you can't wait too long.
Cryptocurrency has become one of the most striking financial phenomena of our time. Behind it lies groundbreaking technology, a wide range of very different projects, and important questions about money, trust, and the future of finance. But it also comes with extreme volatility, difficulty valuing what you're actually buying, custody risks, fraud, and a powerful hype machine capable of clouding sound judgment.
How can you tell innovation apart from a sound investment? Where does the promised return really come from? What could you lose, and who's accountable if something goes wrong?
In Cryptocurrency Without Illusions, Carlos de Anta explains, without unnecessary jargon and with rigorous economic insight, what these assets are, how they work, what risks they carry, and what place they might have in a diversified portfolio. He also covers European regulation, taxation in Spain, and the psychological pitfalls that can lead us into rushed decisions.
This isn't a book meant to convince you to buy cryptocurrency, nor one urging you to run from it. It doesn't promise any formula for multiplying your money either. Its purpose is more useful than that: to help you understand what you might be investing in before you put your savings on the line.
Because prudence isn't about rejecting everything new—it's about knowing how to tell a genuine opportunity from an appealing promise.
Before you let the next big opportunity win you over, learn to ask the right questions.
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Carlos de Anta Puig
Carlos de Anta Puig es economista, perito financiero y especialista en finanzas cuantitativas y modelización económica. Es miembro del Registro de Economistas Forenses y del Instituto Español de Analistas Financieros, y ejerce profesionalmente en Madrid con despacho profesional propio.
Desde 1998 desarrolla su actividad como perito economista, centrado en la elaboración, ratificación y defensa de dictámenes periciales en procedimientos judiciales de distinta naturaleza. Su práctica profesional abarca la valoración de daños económicos, instrumentos financieros y análisis cuantitativo, con un enfoque basado en metodologías propias y herramientas de simulación avanzadas.
Compagina su actividad profesional con la docencia universitaria, donde imparte las asignaturas de econometría, y microeconometría en diferentes grados y programas.
Su trabajo se caracteriza por la integración de rigor técnico, aplicabilidad práctica y desarrollo de marcos operativos reproducibles de modo sistemático que permiten trasladar modelos econométricos complejos a entornos reales de decisión.
