What motivates people to use Bitcoin?

M Bashir, B Strickland, J Bohr - … 2016, Bellevue, WA, USA, November 11 …, 2016 - Springer
Bitcoin, a virtual currency that employs a novel technology that engenders trust and value in
a decentralized peer-to-peer network, has exploded in use since it was first introduced in …

Who uses bitcoin? an exploration of the bitcoin community

J Bohr, M Bashir - … Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many cryptocurrencies have come into existence in recent years, with Bitcoin the most
prominent among them. Although its short history has been volatile, the virtual currency …

Are Bitcoin Users Less Sociable? An analysis of users' language and social connections on twitter

I Hernandez, M Bashir, G Jeon, J Bohr - … , Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014 …, 2014 - Springer
Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer payment system and digital currency, has seen much growth and
controversy in the four years since its introduction. Yet, despite Bitcoin's growing importance …

Of two minds, multiple addresses, and one history: Characterizing opinions, knowledge, and perceptions of bitcoin across groups

X Gao, GD Clark, J Lindqvist - arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.02377, 2015 - arxiv.org
Digital currencies represent a new method for exchange and investment that differs strongly
from any other fiat money seen throughout history. A digital currency makes it possible to …

Of two minds, multiple addresses, and one ledger: characterizing opinions, knowledge, and perceptions of Bitcoin across users and non-users

X Gao, GD Clark, J Lindqvist - Proceedings of the 2016 CHI conference …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Digital currencies represent a new method for exchange--a payment method with no
physical form, made real by the Internet. This new type of currency was created to ease …

" The Most Trustworthy Coin" How Ideological Tensions Drive Trust in Bitcoin

M Knittel, S Pitts, R Wash - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Bitcoin is an innovative technological network, a new, non-governmental currency, and a
worldwide group of users. In other words, Bitcoin is a complex sociotechnical system with a …

Exploring motivations for bitcoin technology usage

IE Khairuddin, C Sas, S Clinch, N Davies - Proceedings of the 2016 CHI …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents an exploratory study focusing on user experience with Bitcoin
technology. We describe interviews with 9 Bitcoin users and report findings related to users' …

A literature review on Bitcoin: Transformation of crypto currency into a global phenomenon

A Manimuthu, G Rejikumar… - IEEE Engineering …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Bitcoin is a crypto-currency-based open-source technology that operates in the peer-to-peer
grid as a private payment mechanism. Bitcoin works on sophisticated cryptography …

Motivations and barriers for end-user adoption of bitcoin as digital currency

W Presthus, NO O'Malley - Procedia Computer Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Bitcoin as concept was coined in 2009 and can be described as a partly open and shared
transactional database. What makes bitcoin unique is that for the first time, we can prove and …

Do Digital Currencies Pose a Threat to Sovereign Currencies and Central Banks?

D Heller - 2017 - ideas.repec.org
Bitcoin is the first digital currency to have received widespread recognition and interest from
users, developers, investors, central banks, and regulators, largely because of its …