Cryptocurrencies 2000 Total Market Cap $2.30T
BTC Market Cap $1.26T ETH Market Cap $377.89B

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Research on Bitcoin and Crypto

Bitcoin and its underlying “blockchain” are decentralizing the securitization of information. Bitcoin’s potential use cases for securitizing information are far reaching, and could facilitate realms as disparate as real estate transfers to venture capital contracts to micro-transactions of less than a cent. While its most obvious use case is that of a currency. -ARK Invest

Academic Research Papers

| An Analysis of the Cryptocurrency Industry - Ryan Farell 2015
| Analyzing Hack Subnetworks in the Bitcoin Transaction Graph - Goldsmith, Grauery, and Shmaloz 2019
| Anonymous Byzantine Consensus - A Model for Bitcoin - Miller, LaViola Jr 2012
| Anonymous Electronic Tokens - Ben Laurie 2008
| Are Cryptocurrencies Criminals Best Friends: Bitcoin and Darknet Markets - Janze 2017
| Assessing the Evolution of Cryptocurrency - Ryan Clements 2018
| Bitcoin and Ethereum Revolution - Egor Zmaznev 2017
| Bitcoin Backbone Protocol - Garay and Kiayias 2019
| Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable - Eyal and Sirer 2013
| Bitcoin or Ethereum - Ghosh, Haider, Kim 2016
| Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Techniques - Narayanan, Bonneau, Felten, Miller, Goldfeder 2016
| Bitcoin: Cryptography, Economics, and the Future - Starry Peng 2013
| Bitcoin: The Economic Case for a Global Virtual Currency Operating in an Unexplored Legal Framework - Jonathan B. Turpin 2014
| Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System - Satoshi Nakamoto 2009
| Blockchain-based Decentralized Storage Scheme - Zhu, Lv, Zeng, Wang,Pei 2019
| Blockchain Governance - Aggelos Kiayias & Philip Lazos 2022
| Blockchain Technology: Beyond Bitcoin - UC Berkeley 2015
| Byzantine Generals Problem - Lamport, Shostak, Pease 1982
| Commodity and Scarcity in Light of Bitcoin - Konrad S. Graf 2014
| Computer Systems by Mutually Suspicious Groups - David Chaum 1982
| Crypto, Blockchain and Global Governance - Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn 2018
| Cryptocurrency and State Sovereignty - Ryan Frebowitz 2018
| Decentralized Payment Systems: Principles and Design - Fanti and Viswanath 2019
| Deleveraging Spirals and Stablecoin Attacks - Klages-Mundty & Mincaz 2019
| Deep Dive into Bitcoin Mining Pools - Romiti, Judmayer, Zamyatin, Haslhofer 2018
| Designing a Blockchain Model for the Paris Agreement Carbon Market Mechanism - Franke, Schletz, Salomo 2020
| Economics of Bitcoin: Is Bitcoin an Alternative to Fiat Currencies and Gold? - Peter Surda 2013
| Effective Scaling of Blockchain Beyond Consensus Innovations and Moore’s Law - Liu, Qian, Chen, Wang, He 2020
| Emerging Political Economy of the BlockChain: Enhancing Regulatory Opportunities - Bagby, Reitter, Chwistek, 2018
| Evaluating Risk and Regulation in the Digital Currency Age - Afzal, Bao, Chen, et al. 2019
| From Initial Coin Offerings to Security Tokens - Michael Mendelson 2019
| Future of Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrencies - Egill Már Hreinsson 2018
| Future of Digital Money: Legal Status and Regulation of Bitcoin in Australia - Chinelle van der Westhuizen 2017
| Global Cryptocurrency Benchmarking Study - Dr. Hileman & M. Rauchs 2017
| Guide to Blockchain Derivatives Markets and Systemic Risk - Ryan Surujnath 2016
| How Cryptocurrencies Have Changed the Criminal Landscape - Igor Groysman 2018
| Layer-Two Blockchain Protocols - Gudgeon, Moreno-Sanchez, Roos, McCorry 2020
| Measuring the Changing Cost of Cybercrime - Anderson, Barton,Bohme, et al. 2019
| Money Laundering Through Cryptocurrencies - George Forgang 2019
| Nation State Involvement in Cryptocurrency and the Impact to Economic Sanctions - Clautice 2019
| On Stake and Consensus - Andrew Poelstra 2015
| On the Origins of Bitcoin - Konrad S. Graf 2013
| Price Fluctuations and the Use of Bitcoin: An Empirical Inquiry - Polasik, Piotrowska, Wisniewski, et al. 2014
| Regulating Bitcoin and Block Chain Derivatives - Houman B. Shadab 2014
| Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies - Bonneau, Miller, Clark, et al. 2015
| Rise of Decentralized Business Models - Yan Chen and Cristiano Bellavitis 2020
| Scalable Funding of Bitcoin Micropayment Channel Networks - Burchert , Decker, Wattenhofer 2016
| Securing Physical Assets on the Blockchain - Hepp, Wortner, Schönhals, Gipp 2018
| Towards a blockchain-based certificate authentication system in Vietnam - Nguyen, Dao, Do 2020
| Understanding and Designing for Trust in Bitcoin Blockchain - Irni Eliana Khairuddin 2019
| U.S. Regulation of Blockchain Currencies: A Policy Overview - Averie Brookes 2018
| Taking a Bit out of Crime: Bitcoin and Cross-Border Tax Evasion - Thomas Slattery 2014
| Why China had to Ban Cryptocurrency but the U.S. Did Not - Rain Xie 2019

Table of Contents

| Bitcoin Lightning Network - (28 reports)
| Bitcoin Mining - (46 reports)
| Blockchain Reports by CPAs and Management Consultants - (30 reports)
| Blockchain Reports by Governments, Agencies, NGOs - (45 reports)
| Blockchain Reports by Financial Institutions - (83 reports)
| Blockchain Reports by Institutes & Foundations - (23 reports)
| Blockchain Reports by Lawyers & Law Firms - (15 reports)
| Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) - (55 reports)
| Cryptocurrency Crime, Terrorism & National Security - (53 reports)
| Decentralized Finance (DeFi) - (22 reports)
| Encryption & Quantum Resistant Bitcoin - (38 reports)
| Healthcare & Blockchain Technology - (23 reports)
| Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) - (18 reports)
| Privacy, Anonymization and Data Protection - (12 reports)
| Proof of Stake (PoS) Consensus Protocol - (33 reports)
| Proof of Work (PoW) Consensus Protocol - (15 reports)
| Research & Academic Papers on Bitcoin and Crypto - (52 reports)
| Smart Contracts - (38 reports)
| Stablecoins - (15 reports)
| Top 10 Public Companies Holding Bitcoin - (10 reports)
| Understanding Austrian Economics and Bitcoin - (16 reports)

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