An emerging and urgent need for transdisciplinary research on Bitcoin
A Bitcoin science roadmap could identify research priorities and capacity-building opportunities across environmental, social, financial, economic, and security dimensions
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Leveraging Bitcoin Miners as Flexible Load Resources for Power System Stability and Efficiency
We focus on the emergence of Bitcoin mining as an important feature for industrial-scale demand response, making use of miners’ inherent characteristics of interruptibility and swift response to enhance grid flexibility.
AI-Assisted Identification of Policy-Salient Research Priorities and Emerging Issues
This paper explores possibilities for integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into horizon scanning and key question exercises to navigate the challenges posed by emerging technologies.
100 Important Questions about Bitcoin’s Energy Use and ESG Impacts
The breadth of knowledge required to answer key questions highlights the need to build research capacity, encourage collaborative cross-sectoral and -disciplinary research, and develop a prioritized research agenda.
Bitcoin Worlds preprint
Bitcoin confronts the global monetary order with an unprecedented experiment of absolute scarcity in a system built on elastic credit. Bitcoin’s trajectory will be set less by protocol rules than by governance choices.
Example of a Bitcoin price model
Introduction to our Bitcoin price modeling framework for non-technical readers, with example of the impact of a single 500,000 Bitcoin purchase
Understanding Bitcoin Supply & Demand - A Backgrounder
Our Bitcoin price forecast framework is based on aggregate market supply and demand 'working together' to figure out equilibrium prices.