Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are a recent socio-technical innovation that seeks to
disrupt the existing monetary system. Through mundane uses of this new digital cash, they …

The Internet and other telecommunications systems have reshaped the means by which
markets are accessed, generated, and transformed. Recent innovations in computer science …

Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and blockchains have become buzzwords in the media and are
attracting increasing academic interest, mainly from the fields of computer science and …

Bitcoin and its peculiar, decentralized transaction system, have already ignited interest by
professional and retail traders in search for profits and by economists and legal experts …

The global financial crisis and the contemporaneous emergence of the digital currency
Bitcoin invite us to think about money and how it often functions almost imperceptibly in …

Velasco discusses contemporary literature on Bitcoin and distinguish between technical and
social research, in an effort to provide a basis for identifying native social structures within …

This paper challenges the notion that Bitcoin is 'trust-free'money by highlighting the social
practices, organizational structures and utopian ambitions that sustain it. At the paper's heart …

The decentralized digital currency Bitcoin-and its underlying" blockchain" technology-has
created much excitement in the technology community, but its potential for building truly …

From their shadowy origins in Bitcoin to their use by multinational corporations,
cryptocurrencies and blockchains are remaking the rules of digital media and society …

As global economic crises place the issue of money at the forefront of media attention, a
growing minority are turning to “cryptocurrencies” as an emerging digital alternative to state …