First Academic Journal Publisher Now Accepts Bitcoin
PeerJ, an open access academic journal publisher with 4 million views and more than 1 million downloads, announced that it is accepting Bitcoin payments. The award-winning publication PeerJ, with editors from prestigious universities such as Harvard and Oxford, uses an innovative business model, which does not charge users for reading content. Authors....
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Ledger, the first ever peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to cryptocurrencies such as a bitcoin, launched today. Arising from a partnership between the University of Pittsburgh, MIT Media Lab and partly funded by Coin Center, Ledger Journal will attempt to lead the research being done in the cryptocurrency field. Dr Peter R. Rizun, co-managing editor at Ledger, told CoinDesk he wants to create a mechanism for efficient peer review within the bitcoin community, adding: "I wanted to build an academic and interdisciplinary communication channel that would allow bright minds in economics,....
Ledger, a new peer-reviewed scholarly journal, will publish full-length original research articles on cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, as well as any relevant intersections with mathematics, computer science, engineering, law and economics. Ledger will be published online on a quarterly basis by the University Library System, University of Pittsburgh, as an open-access journal. "The journal Ledger invites authors to submit their original research for the inaugural issue of the very first peer-reviewed academic publication devoted solely to the field of cryptocurrencies and its....
What a long, strange trip it’s been! Only four years ago, and two years after it started as a novelty in 2009, Reuben Grinberg published the first academic article on bitcoin, "BitCoin: An Innovative Alternative Digital Currency," in the 2011 issue of the Hastings Science & Technology Law Journal. Since then, the pace of bitcoin research has accelerated to the point where it justifies its own peer-reviewed journal: Ledger. In this article, I present a "Top 10" list of research papers published in 2015. The editors at Ledger think of each of them as "the one that got away", because they....
Ledger, a peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to cryptocurrencies, has added a Bank of England economist and researcher to its editorial board. The board member, Dr Michael Kumhof, is senior research advisor in the new Research Hub of the Bank of England, where he co-leads and helps to formulate the research agenda. His research interests primarily include monetary reform (including digital currencies), the role of banks in the macroeconomy and the role of economic inequality in causing imbalances and crises. Prior to his position with the Bank of England, he served as deputy division....
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....