Cryptocurrencies as gamblified financial assets and cryptocasinos: Novel risks for a public health approach to gambling

M Andrade, PWS Newall - Risks, 2023 - mdpi.com
Policymakers' attempts to prevent gambling-related harm are affected by the
'gamblification'of, for example, video games and investing. This review highlights related …

Digital real estate in the metaverse: An empirical analysis of retail investor motivations

L Ante, FP Wazinski, A Saggu - Finance Research Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates retail investor motivations for digital real estate ownership in the
crypto-metaverse. Utilizing a detailed financial behavior survey of metaverse landowners' …

Web3 Metaverse: State-of-the-art and vision

H Chen, H Duan, M Abdallah, Y Zhu, Y Wen… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The metaverse, as a rapidly evolving socio-technical phenomenon, exhibits significant
potential across diverse domains by leveraging Web3 (aka Web 3.0) technologies such as …

Cryptocurrency in The Perspective of Maqasid Al-Shariah

W Wartoyo, AS Haerisma - Afkaruna: Indonesian Interdisciplinary …, 2022 - journal.umy.ac.id
This study explains the Islamic economic perspective on cryptocurrency, in this case, in the
light of maqashid shariah. This research was a literature study and qualitative in nature. The …

How Efficient is Decentralized Finance (DeFi)?

PP Momtaz - Available at SSRN 4063670, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper examines the efficiency of the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) market through a search-
theoretical lens. Search intensity associated with the process of identifying valuable startups …

Investment literacy, overconfidence and cryptocurrency investment

KT Kim, SD Hanna, ST Lee - Financial Services Review, 2023 - openjournals.libs.uga.edu
Cryptocurrency has been increasingly popular with investors. Using the 2018 National
Financial Capability Study Investor survey, we examined the association between …

Profiling Turkish cryptocurrency owners: payment users, crypto investors and crypto traders

L Ante, F Fiedler, F Steinmetz, I Fiedler - Journal of Risk and Financial …, 2023 - mdpi.com
With ownership estimates of up to 25%, Turkey is at the forefront of cryptocurrency adoption,
rendering it an interesting example to study the proclaimed use cases of cryptocurrencies …

Decentralized finance (DeFi) markets for startups: search frictions, intermediation, and the efficiency of the ICO market

PP Momtaz - Small Business Economics, 2024 - Springer
This paper examines the efficiency of the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) market through a search-
theoretical lens. Search intensity associated with the process of identifying valuable startups …

Decentralized finance (defi) markets for startups: Search frictions, intermediation, and efficiency

PP Momtaz - Intermediation, and Efficiency (January 28, 2022), 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper examines the efficiency of the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) market through a search-
theoretical lens. Search intensity associated with the process of identifying valuable startups …

The more you know: energy labelling enables more sustainable cryptocurrency investments

AE Drăgnoiu, M Platt, Z Wang… - 2023 IEEE 43rd …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The energy consumption of popular cryptocurrencies varies greatly: cryptocurrencies based
on proof-of-work (eg Bitcoin) consume much more electricity than their counterparts that use …