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
Horizon scan
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.
Draft Bitcoin horizon scan book online
Leveraging a modified, AI-assisted horizon scanning approach and analysis of 1,900 hours of 2024 Bitcoin-focused podcasts distilled with LLMs, it converts thousands of raw “threats and opportunities” into a preliminary research agenda.
2024 Bitcoin research horizon scan
I used an AI-assisted 'key questions' approach to: (1) analyze transcriptions from 1,818 Bitcoin podcast episodes from 2024; (2) identify Bitcoin-oriented threats and opportunities; and (3) create and refine a list of 100 policy-salient Bitcoin research questions.
40 questions for shaping a policy-salient Bitcoin research agenda
Full article summary: Rudd, M.A., 2024. 40 questions for shaping a policy-salient Bitcoin research agenda, SSRN preprint.