platforms. Bitcoin or BTC is known as a digital coin, issued for the first time in 2009 and based on a peer to peer system. The … associated with criminal financing activities. However, the legal status of Bitcoin is present in many European countries like …

Bitcoin is traded in a number of exchanges, and there is a large and time-varying price dispersion among them. We …. Using weekly data over the past 3 years, we find that shocks to transaction fees and bitcoin price growth explain on average …

While the many commonalities shared by Bitcoin and gold raise a question of whether Bitcoin is a safe-haven like gold …, relevant empirical evidence to date is mixed. Unlike existing empirical studies, we derive a simple estimable model of Bitcoin … dynamic effects of macro factors, including income, inflation, and interest rates on Bitcoin prices at a weekly frequency …

cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum or Ripple have failed to gain relevance in terms of their share in monetary transactions …

This study examines whether Bitcoin, a digital decentralized currency, can become a viable alternative to fiat … currencies. Bitcoin currently does not fulfill the criteria of being a currency because it does not function as a medium of … exchange, a unit of account, and a store of value. Bitcoin's biggest obstacle from fulfilling these functions is the price …