for faster services and greater transparency. Fintech, particularly the blockchain, has the potential to be disruptive to …-to-peer lending, credit scoring, alternative data, distributed ledger technologies, blockchain, smart contracts, cryptocurrencies and …, cybersecurity, identity theft, cloud computing, use of big data and artificial intelligence and machine learning, identity and fraud …

The blockchain is a technology that goes beyond timestamping, bitcoin and secure financial transactions. The … development of an ecosystem around smart connected objects will probably not happen without the blockchain (in one form or another …). The blockchain opens the door to the liquification of the physical world, to the economy of real-time micro …

We study to what extent the Bitcoin blockchain security permanently depends on the underlying distribution of … cryptocurrency market outcomes. We use daily blockchain and Bitcoin data for 2014-2019 and employ the ARDL approach. We test three … equilibrium hypotheses: (i) sensitivity of the Bitcoin blockchain to mining reward; (ii) security outcomes of the Bitcoin …

This paper studies to what extent the cost of operating a proof-of-work blockchain is intrinsically linked to the cost … and mining costs, and blockchain security outcomes. Using daily crypto market data for 2014-2021 and employing the … autoregressive distributed lag approach - that allows treating all the relevant moments of the blockchain series as potentially …