The Top 10 Cryptocurrency Research Papers of 2015
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....
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) just put out a call for White Papers that address the utilization of blockchain in healthcare. Let’s see what happens. A Call For Papers. HHS recently offered a press release [PDF] that asked for registrants to register and respond to the prompt, “Blockchain and Its Emerging Role in Healthcare and Health-related Research.” Within the release HHS defines blockchain technology and then suggests how it may be applicable to the field of health care. Entrants. In order to enter the competition the author(s) must either be U.S. citizens or....
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....