Bitcoin and the Legitimacy Crisis of Money

The virtual currency and payment project Bitcoin intends to challenge the current monetary and payment system which finds itself in a legitimacy crisis in the aftermath of the financial market turmoil of 2008. In examining the governance of the Bitcoin system we try to assess its potential to create input and output legitimacy as payment system and as monetary system in comparison to current practice

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Year of publication:	2015
Authors:	Weber, Beat
Publisher:	[2015]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Elektronisches Geld \| Electronic money \| Legitimität \| Legitimacy \| Virtuelle Währung \| Virtual currency \| Welt \| World \| Finanzkrise \| Financial crisis

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (34 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	In: Cambridge Journal of Economics (DOI 10.1093/cje/beu067) Forthcoming Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments July 17, 2013 erstellt
Classification:	E02 - Institutions and the Macroeconomy ; E42 - Monetary Systems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System ; E50 - Monetary Policy, Central Banking and the Supply of Money and Credit. General
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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