Bitcoin is the most successful cryptocurrency and one of the best types of private money ever. The blockchain … technology underlying bitcoin is presented with the spotlight on distributed consensus, allowing for proper understanding of its … an evolutionary, hardly disruptive, database technology. Instead, bitcoin can be appreciated as the equivalent of gold in …

cryptocurrency investors tend to be educated, young and digital natives. In recent years, a gap in ownership of cryptocurrencies … across genders has emerged. We examine how investor characteristics vary across cryptocurrencies and show that owners of … cryptocurrencies increasingly tend to hold their investment for longer periods. …

This paper examines the behaviour of Bitcoin returns and those of several other cryptocurrencies in the pre and post … important variable for Bitcoin for all periods, whereas for the other cryptocurrencies there are other variables that seem more …. Our empirical findings suggest that the top five cryptocurrencies are substitutes before the launch of Bitcoin futures …