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Who gets included? Equity in digital and decentralised mental health and neurodevelopmental trials: A systematic review. [PDF]

open access: yesPLOS Digit Health
Hall SS   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Virtual Currencies as Commodities

open access: yes, 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.
Lamia Chourou
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Virtual currencies [PDF]

open access: yes, 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.
Urbas, Nejc
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The roles of virtual currencies in the modern payment system [PDF]

open access: yesSt Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies, 2017
The article attempts to identify the formal and essential features of the modern virtual currency, to provide a classification of virtual currencies, to identify the main factors influencing the demand and supply of virtual currencies, to analyze the key
Dmitry Kochergin
exaly   +2 more sources

Inflation of virtual currencies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This papers examines formation of prices in virtual economy World of Warcraft, and its interconnection with real economy through Real Money Trade - exchange of in-game currency for real cash. Paper nds, that WoW economy is heavily leveraged through this channel, namely that it determines price level within the game.
Skuhrovec, Jiří
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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
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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
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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
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Virtual Currencies and Their Taxes

Scientific Research Jouranl of Jawzjanan
The growth and development of financial technologies in recent decades have had profound and diverse impacts on both national financial systems and the global financial infrastructure. Financial products and services based on these technologies have not only facilitated and enhanced the quality and speed of global financial transactions but have also ...
Khal Mohammad Almas, Mohammad Alam Adeel
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The Virtual Currency Paradigm

Digital currencies have gained significant popularity due to their distinct benefits,including rapid cross-border transactions,decreased transaction costs, improved privacy, and diminished dependence on conventional banking systems.Cryptocurrencies,including Bitcoin,Ethereum and others, function on decentralized platforms that utilize blockchain ...
Saurabh Chandra   +5 more
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