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Current applications and future perspectives of extended reality in radiology. [PDF]

open access: yesRadiol Med
Tortora M   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Consumers’ Adoption and Use of E-Currencies in Virtual Markets in the Context of an Online Game

open access: yesJournal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, 2021
Virtual worlds have created unique economies whose outcome is e-currencies, which link the electronic universe and reality. This article aims to examine how perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived risks, and perceived trust significantly ...
Artur Strzelecki, Strzelecki Artur
exaly   +3 more sources

Virtual Currencies as Commodities

2018
The rapid advancement in encryption and network computing gave birth to new tools and products that have influenced the local and global economy alike. One recent and notable example is the emergence of virtual currencies, also known as cryptocurrencies or digital currencies.
exaly   +2 more sources

Federal Regulation of Virtual Currencies

2018
We examine how the U.S. federal government, which initially was slow in examining and prosecuting violations of law brought about by the misuse of virtual currencies, has now taken aggressive action against parties who either deliberately or carelessly act in violation of the rights of users and customers. We examine the role of the U.S. Securities and
Girasa Rosario
exaly   +2 more sources

The Legal Cause of “Holding Value” and Its Impact on Islamic Provisions Regarding Virtual Currencies

open access: yesReligions, 2020
This article discusses the Islamic juristic position of virtual currencies. In the classical period, jurists differed on the reason behind Islam’s prohibition of usury when dealing with precious metals and their derivatives, with the majority arguing ...
Man Baker
exaly   +3 more sources

Self-recharging virtual currency

Proceeding of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Economics of peer-to-peer systems - P2PECON '05, 2005
Market-based control is attractive for networked computing utilities in which consumers compete for shared resources (computers, storage, network bandwidth). This paper proposes a new self-recharging virtual currency model as a common medium of exchange in a computational market.
David Irwin 0001   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Payment in Virtual Currency

2023
Abstract This chapter considers legal issues of paying with virtual currency. It explores the present monetary system and the emergence of digital currencies. It addresses virtual currencies in the broader context of private currencies and highlights the difference between a self-anchored virtual coin whose value tends to fluctuate and a
openaire   +1 more source

Virtual currencies

2015
Bitcoin is a new concept of alternative or virtual currencies, which is used over the internet. Unlike other traditional currencies, Bitcoin does not have any central issuer, hence it is completely decentralized. Bitcoin is attractive due to its low transaction and operation costs.
openaire   +1 more source

A Reference Ontology of Money and Virtual Currencies

2020
In recent years, there has been a growing interest, within the financial sector, in the adoption of ontology-based conceptual models to make the nature of conceptualizations explicit, as well as to safely establish the correct relations between them, thereby supporting semantic interoperability.
Glenda C. M. Amaral   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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