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Do the rich always get richer by investing in a cryptocurrency for which new coins are issued according to a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) protocol? We answer this question in the negative: Without trading, the investor shares in the cryptocurrency are martingales that converge to a well-defined limiting...
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- scale, security, and adoption - as the determinants of blockchain user utility. We examine each blockchain along those …This paper provides an empirical overview of the largely unexplored public blockchain ecosystem. Our overview … highlights that only a few blockchains dominate the ecosystem although no single blockchain, not even Bitcoin, dominates …
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find that blockchain adoption always enhances manufacturer welfare in this setting when adoption costs are zero; as a … consequence, the manufacturer always adopts blockchain for sufficiently small adoption costs. The enhanced manufacturer welfare … from blockchain adoption arises for two reasons: the manufacturer possessing risk aversion and the blockchain reducing …
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Permissionless blockchains require a protocol to generate consensus. Many prominent permissionless blockchains employ Proof-of-Work (PoW) for that purpose, but PoW possesses significant shortcomings. Various alternatives have been proposed. This paper provides the first formal economic model of...
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We study the equilibrium level of staking in a Proof-of-Stake blockchain when investors have different trading horizons …
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