This paper develops a microeconomic model of bitcoin production to analyze the economic effects of the Bitcoin protocol …. I view the bitcoin as a tradable commodity that is produced by miners and whose supply is managed by the protocol. The … findings show that bitcoin's volatile price path and inefficiency are related, and that both are a consequence of the protocol …

bubbles are awed due to an insufficient consideration of the fundamental value of cryptocurrencies. As even fiat money is said … to exhibit features of bubbles, the same applies to cryptocurrencies. Thus, any empirical investigation into either the … presence of cryptocurrency bubbles or the fundamental value of cryptocurrencies is needless. Second, the paper conducts a short …

We examine the significance of fourty-one potential covariates of bitcoin returns for the period 2010-2018 (2872 daily … uncertainty and stock market volatility are among the most important variables for bitcoin. We also trace strong evidence of … bubbly bitcoin behavior in the 2017-2018 period. …