Academic Bitcoin Research Flourished in 2014
Most people will agree that 2014 was not a great year for Bitcoin's price, but according to financial author and researcher Brett Scott, it really was a great year for academic interest in the cryptocurrency. According to Scott, who spent the last week of last year piecing together a database containing information about all of the academic Bitcoin research published since Satoshi Nakamoto's seminal paper in 2008, the number of published papers rose by more than threefold from 61 in 2013 to 205 in 2014. This is appears to show an acceleration in the rate of increase since 2011: 8 papers....
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Academia is increasingly focusing on bitcoin, and hundreds of papers on the subject have now been published, according to research by author and alternative finance commentator Brett Scott. Notably, more than three times as many papers were published in 2014 as in the previous year. Scott pieced together a database of published research on the digital currency by combing through 16 online repositories, including Google Scholar and academic publishers' websites. In addition to peer-reviewed research, he included self-published and independent work, theses and "quasi-academic" pieces, among....
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Finding up-to-date academic information and analyses on Bitcoin and the surrounding technologies has been notoriously difficult, as the general population has had to wait for them to trickle down through the press and social media. If you’re doing Bitcoin secondary research, or just want some sources of general information that haven’t filtered and paired down through the media, look no further than CABRA: the Comprehensive Academic Bitcoin Research Archive. CABRA: Reliable Bitcoin Info in an Age of Rampant Speculation. CABRA, hosted on Github by Bitcoin Contributor Christian Decker is....
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