Journal of Peer Production Calling For Papers on Value and Currency

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 is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal dedicated to publishing full-length original research articles on the centered on cryptocurrencies and the blockchain technology. The Journal is published online by the University of Pittsburgh on a quarterly basis. The publication also covers any relevant intersections with computer science, mathematics, law, engineering, and economics. The journal Ledger is freely accessible to all readers and authors. It encourages authors to digitally sign their manuscripts and timestamp the published manuscripts in the Blockchain. The Journal does this....

Auroracoin suddenly spiked last week, perhaps upon the leak of the Panama Papers. The papers promptly angered Icelanders, who now feel that the nation is suffering yet another 2008. Although Auroracoin has not been an overwhelming success, its market cap has increased three-fold since the Panama Papers leaked. The peer-to-peer cryptocurrency, launched in February 2014, was marketed as an alternative to Bitcoin and the Icelandic krona. The pseudonymous creators said they planned to distribute half of the auroracoins to all 330,000 people in Iceland’s national ID database for free.....

Publish or perish, is the motto followed by the academia. Academic research is a highly competitive field where scientists and students alike work hard in their respective fields of study and compete against each other to publish their findings in various peer reviewed journals. There are numerous peer-reviewed journals and periodicals related to almost all fields of study, science, technology, management, arts etc. Until now there were no specific journal for cryptocurrency alone. Most of the research done on the cryptocurrency sector was so far being published in journals related to....