Trotz vieler älterer Werke zum Blockchain-System und der daraus hervorgegangenen Kryptowährung Bitcoin lohnt sich ein aktuelles Buch über diese Währung, die trotz grosser Verlustmöglichkeiten oft nachgefragt wird. Ein/eine Interessent*in erfährt hier alles Wichtige zum Thema: was sind...

Bitcoin permits users to engage in direct expressive activity with one another without the need for centralized intermediaries. It does so by utilizing an open and community-managed global database called a blockchain. While much of the literature about Bitcoin has focused on its use as a form...

Investors are looking for objects in which they invest their funds successfully, evaluating the effectiveness of alternative markets and their instruments. Historically, cash flow indicators most effectively reflected the mood of the masses in relation to any financial asset, both in the...

This paper studies the operations and financial valuations of 13 cryptocurrency mining companies that are listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange and have facilities in North America. We find that miners using Texas wind power are offline more than other miners, in a more erratic pattern, while...

This paper studies the operations and financial valuations of 13 cryptocurrency mining companies that are listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange and have facilities in North America. We find that miners using Texas wind power are offline more than other miners, in a more erratic pattern, while...

Bitcoin Ordinals are on-chain non-fungible assets native to the Bitcoin blockchain. As the data is stored on-chain, by opposition to Ethereum-like NFTs, creating an ordinal (i.e. "inscribing" it) can be expensive. We analyze the initial wave of Ordinals from December 14th 2022 until April 16th...