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CRIX or evaluating blockchain based currencies
Trimborn, Simon; Härdle, Wolfgang - 2016
enable us to create an index, referred to as CRIX, for the cryptocurrency market. For further investigation of the new … emerging e-coins have not been mapped into an index yet because with cryptos like Bitcoin, a new kind of asset of great public …
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CRIX or Evaluating Blockchain Based Currencies
Trimborn, Simon - 2019
More and more companies start offering digital payment systems. Smartphones evolve to a digital wallet such that it seems like we are about to enter the era of digital finance. In fact we are already inside an digital economy. The market of e-x (x = "finance", "money", "book", you name it ...)...
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The Market for Bitcoin Transactions
Tsang, Kwok Ping - 2020
Transaction fees in the bitcoin system work differently from those in conventional payment systems due to the design of … the bitcoin mining algorithm. In particular, transaction fees and transaction volume in the bitcoin system increase … mechanism of fluctuating transaction fees in bitcoin introduces an extra cost of uncertainty to users, a back …
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Explaining the interplay between merchant acceptance and consumer adoption in two-sided markets for payment methods
Huynh, Kim P.; Nicholls, Gradon; Shcherbakov, Oleksandr - 2019
The market for payment cards is inherently two sided. Consumers benefit from increased merchant acceptance of payment cards and vice versa. To quantify the interdependence of consumer and merchants or network externalities, we construct and estimate a structural two-sided model of a payment...
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Demand for payment services and consumer welfare : the introduction of a central bank digital currency
Huynh, Kim P.; Molnar, Jozsef; Shcherbakov, Oleksandr; … - 2020 - Last updated: March 12, 2020
In recent years, there have been rapid technological innovations in retail payments. Such dramatic changes in the economics of payment systems have led to questions regarding whether there is consumer demand for cash. The entry of these new products and services has resulted in significant...
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Why Bitcoin Dominates
Peterson, Timothy - 2020
due to competition or incompatibility. In the instance of cryptocurrency as a network and with Metcalfe's Law as the … all network participants. We calculate the economic impact of competing coins (“altcoins”) on Bitcoin's value and find … that they may negatively impact the entire cryptocurrency ecosystem theoretical maximum value by several billion dollars …
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CRIX or evaluating blockchain based currencies
Härdle, Wolfgang Karl; Trimborn, Simon - 2015
More and more companies start offering digital payment systems. Smartphones evolve to a digital wallet such that it seems like we are about to enter the era of digital finance. In fact we are already inside an digital economy. The market of e-x (x = "finance", "money", "book", you name it ... )...
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Bitcoin, Not Crypto : A Comparative Analysis of Bitcoin's Fundamentally Unique and Irreplicable Properties
Selvam, Vijay - 2021
-based decentralization – a concept that was described originally in the Bitcoin Whitepaper in 2008. What is Bitcoin’s value proposition in … this confusing landscape? Bitcoin is a monetary asset that achieves immutability through a decentralized governance … Bitcoin, what we see across the industry are blockchain-based tokens offering diluted or spurious decentralization, thereby …
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Does Bitcoin Cash Have a Mind of its Own, or Will Bitcoin Always Determine its Future?
Johnson, Jackie - 2021
Bitcoin Cash is a cryptocurrency which was spun-off from Bitcoin in 2017. It was a result of a disagreement over … Bitcoin’s 1mg block size which it was felt hindered transaction times. The Bitcoin Cash block size was initially set at 8mg … 2018. Evidence points to a high correlation between Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash prices but this only provides limited support …
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Who buys Bitcoin? The Cultural Determinants of Bitcoin Usage
Foley, Sean; Frijns, Bart; Garel, Alexandre; Roh, Tai-Yong - 2021
We examine the relationship between national culture and a country’s Bitcoin usage. Given that Bitcoin is a high … includes the originating country for Bitcoin transactions, we examine the relationship between individualism and a country …’s Bitcoin usage for a sample of 80 countries between 2009-2018. We find a significant and positive relationship between a …
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