Biais, Bruno; Bisière, Christophe; Bouvard, Matthieu; … - 2020
We offer an equilibrium model of cryptocurrency pricing and confront it to new data on bitcoin transactional benefits … and costs. The model emphasises that the fundamental value of the cryptocurrency is the stream of net transactional … be used to purchase goods and services, and we also measure costs incurred by bitcoin owners. Consistent with the model …