Mapping the 2011-2020 Scopus Bitcoin literature
Explore how a 2011-2020 Scopus audit maps disciplinary fragmentation, geographical concentration, and technical dominance of Bitcoin research.
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Murray Rudd
Dr. Murray Rudd is an applied environmental economist and policy researcher. His full attention is now on the economic, social, technical, and environmental impacts and potential of emerging technologies.
BitVM: Off-Chain Computation on Bitcoin
Explore how BitVM enables quasi-Turing complete computation on Bitcoin via interactive fraud proofs and off-chain execution traces.
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Bitcoin and corporate equity return dependencies
Explore how Bitcoin returns and corporate equity dependencies reveal asymmetric information flows and dynamic risk exposures.
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Materiality and uneven development in bitcoin mining
Explore how bitcoin mining creates crypto-regionalism, tethering digital finance to post-industrial energy grids and exposing uneven development.
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Increasing Returns and Lock-In
Explore stochastic models that demonstrate how increasing returns & historical events drive unpredictable technological lock-in
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El Salvador Bitcoin Legal Tender
Explore how El Salvador's Bitcoin legal tender required complex infrastructure, revealing operational risks and unverified adoption claims.
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Bitcoin Use Cases: A Scoping Review
Explore how a scoping review maps peer-reviewed Bitcoin use, revealing investment dominance and thin payment evidence.
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Stablecoin stability requires more than reserve quality
Explore how stablecoin par maintenance depends on Treasury-market intermediation, blockchain liveness, and reserve quality under the GENIUS Act.
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Bitcoin Allocation and Positive Skewness Preferences
Explore how extreme positive skewness and rare-event beliefs drive optimal Bitcoin allocations under higher-moment and behavioral utility models.
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Bitcoin, Hard Money, and Time Preference
Explore how hard money preserves purchasing power and lowers time preference, and evaluate Bitcoin's role in reversing fiat-driven social decay.
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Blockchain governance as polycentric orders
Explore how blockchain networks function as constitutional & competitive polycentric orders shaped by internal protocols & external market forces
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Limits of legal mandates in digital payment adoption
Explore how legal tender status and subsidies failed to establish Bitcoin as a routine medium of exchange in El Salvador.
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