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Bitcoins - A Viable Currency? Regulatory and Legal Issues

Viswanath, Raghavi - 2016

electronic payments can hardly avoid disputes that arise through such mediation. In order to have a decentralized currency which … digital currency, was introduced by a pseudonymous software developer, Satoshi Nakamoto, in 2009. This paper aims to analyse … virtual currency. However, the grey areas of such implementation arise out of the novelties of its own creation, whether it is …

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How to Regulate Bitcoin? Decentralized Regulation for a Decentralized Cryptocurrency

Nabilou, Hossein - 2020

Bitcoin is a distributed system. The greatest dilemma it poses to the current legal and regulatory systems is that it is hardly possible to regulate a distributed network in a centralized fashion as decentralized permissionless blockchain-based cryptocurrencies are antithetical to the existing...

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Did the Introduction of Bitcoin Futures Crash the Bitcoin Market at the End of 2017?

Hattori, Takahiro - 2020

At the end of 2017, the Bitcoin price dropped significantly by around 70% over two months. Since the introduction of Bitcoin futures coincided with this market crash, the new financial instrument might have caused the market crash, the literature emphasizing that the futures enabled investors to...

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The Relationship Between Arbitrage in Futures and Spot Markets and Bitcoin Price Movements : Evidence From the Bitcoin Markets

Hattori, Takahiro - 2020

We examine how investors arbitrage the Bitcoin spot and futures markets. Using intraday data of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), we reconstruct the actual arbitrage condition that investors confront. We find that there are few arbitrage profit opportunities in “normal” markets, but...

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Assessing the Differences in Bitcoin & Other Cryptocurrency Legality Across National Jurisdictions

Chohan, Usman W. - 2020

The growth of cryptocurrencies has been met with a variety of regulatory and legislative responses across national jurisdictions, with some signalling approval of the general transactional and functional aspects of cryptocurrencies, while other responding with legislative prohibitions or...

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How Bitcoin Functions As Property Law

Chason, Eric D. - 2019

Bitcoin replicates many of the formal aspects of real estate transactions. Bitcoin transactions have features that closely resemble grantor names, grantee names, legal descriptions, and signatures found in real property deeds. While these “Bitcoin deeds” may be interesting, they are not...

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Economic Aspects of Bitcoin and Other Decentralized Public-Ledger Currency Platforms

Evans, David S. - 2014

A number of internet-based digital currency platform based on decentralized public ledgers have started since the …

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Autonocoin : A Proof-of-Belief Cryptocurrency

Abramowicz, Michael - 2015

This paper proposes a self-governing cryptocurrency, dubbed Autonocoin. Cryptocurrency owners play formal tacit coordination games by making investments recorded on the block chain. Such investments represent bets about the focal point resolution of normative issues, such as whether a proposed...

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Designing a global digital currency

Balvers, Ronald J.; McDonald, Bill - In: Journal of international money and finance 111 (2021), pp. 1-18

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Drivers of bitcoin price

Truong Dong Loc; Nguyen Phat Tai - In: Vietnam's socio-economic development : a social science … 26 (2021) 105, pp. 26-36

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