The evolution of Internet has radically changed the way millions of people conduct their financial affairs today. Online payment solutions and online banking services attract more and more customers every day, whereas Internet connectivity is essential for their availability. This study models...

Purpose: Decentralized, blockchain-based equity crowdfunding has potential to close the equity-funding gap faced by startups. The present paper investigates the driving forces of equity crowdfunding and the impact of the blockchain.Design: In a two-round, expert-based Delphi survey, ten...

Bitcoin is a digital monetary system that functions without any central authority and pre-assumed identities among participants. Contrary to a popular belief, Bitcoin is not inherently anonymous or secure. In this article, we survey security and privacy risks in Bitcoin and related...

The Bitcoin digital currency increasingly attracts an essential number of Internet users. This study focuses on the future outlook of Bitcoin by identifying drivers and impediments of the currency's adoption. For this aim, we conduct an empirical survey of around one hundred Bitcoin experts and...

Since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the problem of fake news on social media gained renewed public attention. Consequently, a huge amount of research literature concerning this matter is published each year. With this study, we seek to identify and integrate the findings of relevant and...

Investigating the correlations between graph metrics in various networks is a prosperous research topic that only starts to evolve. Knowledge about graph metrics interrelations may be beneficial in many other aspects of networks studying, starting from optimizing computations to even detecting...

While information technology has been advancing rapidly during the past years, the dawn of the information age has not only elevated the importance of privacy in theory and practice but also raised concerns about how to protect a users’ private information. Within the information systems...