Tag: bitcoin
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BTC-Gold Energy comparison – BTC is really really energy intensive!
Bitcoin is not the new gold. On foot of the FT article today on BTC and by extension cryptocurrency energy consumption (TL:DR its a dirty dirty currency) a common thread of commentary is “what about gold, eh, look how energy intensive that is”. Well….lets do that
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Cryptocurrency Conference May 2018
Agenda – Cryptocurreny Conference, 24 May 2018 (3) At Anglia Ruskin University, Thursday 24 May 2018 09:00 – 09:30 Registration and refreshments 09:30 – 10:00 Welcome and opening remarks Dr Larisa Yarovaya, Conference Chair Prof Simon Down, Deputy Dean Research and Enterprise, Business School – Anglia Ruskin University 10:00 – 10:50 Keynote – The…
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Call for Papers: Cryptocurrency Research Conference 2018
I will be the keynote at a conference on Cryptocurrencies, sponsored by the Money, Macro Finance Association, May 24 2018. The call for papers is here
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Bitcoin and “the denationalization of money”
Bitcoin is in the news again with the Winklevoss Twins testimonies and the indictment of some persons involved in a Bitcoin exchange. There has been surprisingly little research on Bitcoin from academics. Partially this may reflect a disinterest, or a lack of knowledge of how it works, or a dismissive attitude towards it as ‘faddish’.…
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Bitcoin Bubble(s)
Bitcoin is soaring. I have previously noted a new test (The generalized sup-ADF test of Phillips for the technically minded : see https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/download.cgi?db_name=CEF2010&paper_id=69 if interested) for bubbles. Applied here we see not one but two bubbles in bitcoin. The shaed series is the test statistic, the light green line its critical value – when the…