the bitcoin mining algorithm. In particular, transaction fees and transaction volume in the bitcoin system increase …Transaction fees in the bitcoin system work differently from those in conventional payment systems due to the design of … mechanism of fluctuating transaction fees in bitcoin introduces an extra cost of uncertainty to users, a back …

. We analyse price dynamics from 1980 to 2020 for gold and silver resorting to annual data. Regarding bitcoin we employ … hedging properties. Moreover, we also do so for Bitcoin since we consider it an appropriate asset due to its specific …

The emergence of bitcoin poses an important question for monetary theorists: can bitcoin compete with or even replace … one money relative to another. We attempt to answer these questions in light of the emergence of bitcoin. In particular …

The emergence of digital currencies such as Bitcoin and the underlying blockchain and distribution ledger technology …

The Bitcoin Market Potential Index conceptualizes and ranks the potential utility of bitcoin across 178 countries to … repression, financial crises (historical), and bitcoin penetration. Standardized and re-scaled country level data both indicate … that Argentina and Sub-Saharan Africa are the country and region, respectively, where bitcoin has the greatest potential …