First Peer-Reviewed Academic Bitcoin Journal, Ledger, Launches and Issues Call for Papers

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,....

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....

The Journal of Peer Production, an academic publication dedicated to exploring, investigating and promoting what they consider to be the emergence of a new, peer-to-peer, economic model in society, hasannounced a call for papers for a special issue of their journal on the topic of "value and currency in peer production." The Journal of Peer Production has covered a wide range of topics in the area of peer-to-peer economy, ranging fromfile sharing in Sweden tothe emergence of governance in the open source FreeBSD project and evendo-it-yourself biology, and is now looking for answers to one....

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....