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What are the main drivers of the Bitcoin price? Evidence from wavelet coherence analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Bitcoin has emerged as a fascinating phenomenon of the financial markets. Without any central authority issuing the currency, it has been associated with controversy ever since its popularity and public interest reached high levels.
Kristoufek, Ladislav
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Digital Currencies

open access: yesالمجلة الدولية للأداء الاقتصادي
The evolution of societies over time has led to the circulation of money in its various forms as a means of exchange, and may vary according to the geographical area in which the exchange takes place and has evolved from the use of precious metals such as gold, silver and other metals to the use of coins and securities licensed by the State, It was not
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The next generation of digital currencies: in search of stability. Bruegel Policy Contribution Issue #15 December 2019 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Four major developments have challenged the status quo and reopened the debate on the forms that money will take in the future: 1) use of cash as a medium of exchange has declined; 2) distributed ledger technology (DLT) has led to the emergence of ...
Claeys, Grégory, Demertzis, Maria
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John Maynard Keynes, man or myth? The incident of the Spanish pesetas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
John Maynard Keynes was and still is one of the world’s most famous economists. One of the most fascinating stories about Keynes appeared in his obituary in the 1946 Proceedings of the British Academy.
Zagorsky, Jay
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(WP 2013-09) Virtual Currency and the Financial System: The Case of Bitcoin [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Technological development and the increased use of the internet have led to the proliferation of virtual communities. Some of these communities have created and circulated their own currency for exchanging goods and services.
Chowdhury, Abdur, Mendelson, Barry K.
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Free Money, But Not Tax-Free: A Proposal for the Tax Treatment of Cryptocurrency Hard Forks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Cryptocurrency has attracted extraordinary attention as one of the greatest financial innovations in recent years. Equally noticeable are the increasingly frequent cryptocurrency events, such as hard forks.
Xu, Danhui
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Cryptocurrency: History, Advantages, Disadvantages, and the Future [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Cryptocurrency is a digital asset that has seen a large amount of attention within the past five years. Its origin is intriguing to some based upon its newness, yet it has invoked mysticism and skepticism in others.
Rice, Mitchell
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Do consumers need a ‘Bit’ more protection under Australian consumer laws? The regulatory risks and challenges of Bitcoin [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The creation of Bitcoin, as a digital currency, has been a significant development in the world of finance, in that it provides an alternative method of payment to consumers and businesses who use Bitcoin as a means to buy or sell goods or simply as an ...
Van Der Westhuizen, Chinelle
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Unpacking Blockchains

open access: yes, 2017
The Bitcoin digital currency appeared in 2009. Since this time, researchers and practitioners have looked under the hood of the open source Bitcoin currency, and discovered that Bitcoins Blockchain software architecture is useful for non-monetary ...
Prpić, J.
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ebarts - democratic money [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Conventional money depends upon scarcity to maintain its value and for this reason there will never be enough CM to do all the things that we need to do, for example provide education, care and opportunities.
Arafa, Yasmine   +2 more
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