The landscape of ICOs and its underlying Blockchain technology needs more clarity, given that several overlapping and opposing views exist from governmental institutions, institutional investors, economists, and academia. Those positions stem from confusion, bias, and vested interest. Having...

Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies are still generating opposing views ranging from being a fraud to being the source of a new economy. Those differences are stemming from confusion, bias and vested interest. This paper is an attempt to generate an unbiased, unified market definition to fill a...