Research

Bitcoin exists. Now what?

Title Formats Author Date
"Economics of Bitcoin: is Bitcoin an alternative to fiat currencies and gold?" PDF
Link 		Peter Šurda November 19, 2012
"On the Origins of Bitcoin" HTML
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Link 		Konrad S. Graf October 23, 2013
"GPG Contracts" HTML
Link 		Mircea Popescu October 24, 2012
"Reciprocal Altruism in the Theory of Money" HTML
 Daniel Krawisz December 8, 2014
"Anonymous Byzantine Consensus from Moderately-Hard Puzzles: A Model for Bitcoin" PDF
Link 		Joseph J. LaViola, Jr. and Andrew Miller April 24, 2014
"Revisiting Conceptions of Commodity and Scarcity in Light of Bitcoin" PDF
Link 		Konrad S. Graf March 17, 2014
"On Stake and Consensus" PDF
Link 		Andrew Poelstra March 22, 2015
"The Bitcoin Lightning Network: Scalable Off-Chain Instant Payments (DRAFT Version 0.5.9.2)" PDF
Link 		Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja January 14, 2016
"Scalable Funding of Bitcoin Micropayment Channel Networks" PDF
Link 		Conrad Burchert, Roger Wattenhofer, and Christian Decker November 2017
"Commodity, Scarcity, and Monetary Value Theory in Light of Bitcoin" HTML
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Link 		Konrad S. Graf February 24, 2015