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A Bayesian approach to identify Bitcoin users. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Bitcoin is a digital currency and electronic payment system operating over a peer-to-peer network on the Internet. One of its most important properties is the high level of anonymity it provides for its users.
Péter L Juhász +3 more
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A Survey on Security and Privacy Issues of Bitcoin [PDF]
IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2017 Bitcoin is a popular cryptocurrency that records alltransactions in a distributed append-only public ledger calledblockchain. The security of Bitcoin heavily relies on the incentive-compatible proof-of-work (PoW) based distributed consensus pro-tocol, which is run by network nodes called miners.
M. Conti +3 more
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, 2017 Bitcoin (and other virtual currencies) have the potential to revolutionize the way that payments are processed, but only if they become ubiquitous. This Article argues that if virtual currencies are used at that scale, it would pose threats to the ...
Allen, Hilary J.
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016 Bitcoin has received much attention in the media and by investors in recent years, although there remains scepticism and a lack of understanding of this cryptocurrency. We add to the literature on Bitcoin by studying the market efficiency of Bitcoin. Through a battery of robust tests, evidence reveals that returns are significantly inefficient over our
Andrew Urquhart
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"Bitcoin now": temporal discounting in Bitcoin holders. [PDF]
Front Neurosci, 2023 IntroductionCryptocurrency investment and trading are rapidly growing activities due to the development of applications and platforms that offer fast, continuous, and easy entry into the cryptocurrency world. To understand decision making in cryptocurrency holders, we assessed temporal discounting, that is, whether Bitcoin holders disregard rewards if ...
El Haj M, Moustafa AA.
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Statistical and clustering analysis of attributes of Bitcoin backbone nodes. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 Bitcoin is a decentralized digital cryptocurrency. Its network is a Peer-to-peer(P2P) network consisting of distributed nodes. Some of these nodes are always online and in this article are called Bitcoin backbone nodes.
Dawei Xu +4 more
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Bitcoin: a Money-like Informational Commodity [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 The question "what is Bitcoin" allows for many answers depending on the objectives aimed at when providing such answers. The question addressed in this paper is to determine a top-level classification, or type, for Bitcoin.
Bergstra, Jan A., Weijland, Peter
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Major determinants of Bitcoin price: Application of a vector error correction model [PDF]
Investment Management & Financial Innovations, 2023 Research in recent years has shown that Bitcoin is a virtual asset that is used as a medium of exchange and investment tool other than shares and bonds, the development of the digital era has opened up opportunities for Bitcoin to be chosen as part of an
Dermawan Jaya Hartono, Suyanto Suyanto
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Drivers Affecting Bitcoin Adoption as a Payment Mechanism in the Tourism Industry [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Finance, 2022 While travelers' desire to visit the world's most remote places has grown, the inefficiency of global payments indicates a significant barrier to tourism growth.
Mehdi Daryaei +3 more
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The Mathematics of Bitcoin [PDF]
EMS Newsletter, 2020 We survey recent results on the mathematical stability of Bitcoin protocol. Profitability and probability of a double spend are estimated in closed form with classical special functions. The stability of Bitcoin mining rules is analyzed and several theorems are proved using martingale and combinatorics techniques.
Ricardo Pérez-Marco +3 more
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