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Showing 1 to 20 of 108 for “"Bitcoin"”.
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Predicting Bitcoin: a robust model for predicting Bitcoin price directions based on network influencers
… a model for predicting the future daily price of Bitcoin is proposed and evaluated in comparison to that of a purely random model. Bitcoin is a novel digital currency that relies on cryptography instead of a central authority to verify transactions. Without a central authority, Bitcoin requires a …
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Time Series Analysis of Bitcoin
… markets. Chapter one provides background on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general. It begins by introducing four major cryptocurrencies. Then recent developments in economic research on Bitcoin are discussed. Chapter two introduces a noncausal autoregressive process with Cauchy errors in …
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BITCOIN: A TECHNOLOGY-INFLUENCED SOCIAL MOVEMENT
Over the past decade, the Bitcoin-inspired cryptocurrency industry and blockchain technology have continued to evolve and reshape the global financial industry, despite resistance from state governments to prevent the adoption of the alternative payment system. The academic study of Bitcoin by …
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Bitcoin: The New Virtual Gold? An investigation into the diversification properties of Bitcoin within a South African portfolio
… and asset allocation effects of including Bitcoin in a portfolio, and compares this with physical gold. In particular the study investigates: ( i) key statistics, returns and correlations between Bitcoin’s returns and those of the components of a standard South African base portfolio and …
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Bitcoin en tiempos de crisis e incertidumbre
Esta tesis explora el papel del BITCOIN en tiempos de incertidumbre y su potencial como depósito de valor y medio de intercambio. La primera parte de la tesis ofrece una visión general de las criptomonedas, sus definiciones, funciones y características únicas. La tesis también profundiza en el …
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An analysis of the bitcoin blockchain cryptography
Bitcoin is a virtual currency that was first introduced in 2009. The Bitcoin mining process relies on the hashing function SHA-256. There are strong indications that the Bitcoin mining process was exploited in 2010, only a year after its initial release [9]. This raises significant questions over …
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EXPLORING BITCOIN WITH COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE METHODS
… l’evoluzione e le dinamiche interne di Bitcoin come sistema sociotecnico ed economico. Concepito come un’alternativa radicale alla finanza tradizionale, Bitcoin nasce con l’obiettivo di decentralizzare il sistema economico, eliminare gli intermediari finanziari e promuovere l’autonomia …
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Information bias and trust in bitcoin speculation
… credibility of information presents a challenge. Bitcoin, the nascent crypto-currency, presents a domain within which profound financial risk abounds. Even for those armed with experience and knowledge there are numerous challenges to assessing risk, especially as sources of Bitcoin information …
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Bitcoin Protocol Analysis: Game Theory and Protocol Integrity
This thesis develops a unified mathematical framework for analysing the economic dynamics of proof-of-work mining in scalable digital cash systems. The central contribution is the construction of an unbounded-horizon stochastic game that embeds the full mechanical structure of …
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Taxation implications of Bitcoin : a South African perspective
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Accounting at the Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2025.
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Modeling the Trajectory of Bitcoin using System Dynamics
… cryptocurrency units to serve different ends. Bitcoin (BTC), the first cryptocurrency, is now over a decade old, and is still the most popular. It has a market cap larger than all the others. It serves well as a template or point of comparison to build models that seek to understand the …
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Bitcoin : a new way to understand payment systems
Bitcoin has recently raised substantial attention from a variety of players: media, academia, and regulators. While the price of Bitcoin has continuously and substantially gone down since its peak in December 2013, other metrics indicate a more optimistic prospect. The adoption of Bitcoin is …
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Bitcoin adoption in South Africa, an end user perspective
… currencies has led to the growing presence of bitcoin and other blockchain based, decentralized cryptocurrencies). The most popular of these cryptocurrencies being Bitcoin, a globally traded cryptocurrency, evidence of which is prevalent in South Africa with the formation of Bitcoin exchanges …
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Simulation-Based Evaluation of Transaction Finality in Bitcoin Using CNSIM
… to evaluating consensus networks. To study the Bitcoin protocol, CNSim was enhanced by designing and implementing a novel framework for modeling adversarial behaviors. Specifically, the Majority Attack was implemented to create a detailed simulation for double-spending scenarios. Using this …
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Determinantes del precio del Bitcoin. Un análisis econométrico utilizando modelos VAR
… determinantes del comportamiento del precio del Bitcoin mediante la aplicación de un modelo VAR que incluye variables macroeconómicas y del mercado del Bitcoin. A través de este análisis, se busca identificar y evaluar la importancia relativa de cada uno de estos factores en la evolución del …
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Farmer, miner, builder, trader : re-humanizing the distributed infrastructures of Bitcoin
The concept of bitcoin is powerful and charming. Social scientist gurus, transnational corporations' CEOs, and mass media journalists all emphasize that cryptocurrency will lead humanity to a future of increasing extraordinary financial and spatial decentralization. However, although bitcoin has …
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A Quantamental approach to Bitcoin trading: Are we swinging for the Fences?
… the development of a trading strategy on Bitcoins based on machine learning techniques. A pipeline proposal is shown which is based on Lopez de Prado's book ([Pra18]). Some modi cations are introduced in the book's pipeline to adjust a momentum primary model on Bitcoins, and to incorporate …
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Understanding BITCOIN Market Mechanics Using Feature Engineering, Data Modeling, and Forecasting Methods
Bitcoin (BTC) has emerged as a groundbreaking and influential cryptocurrency, revolutionizing the financial landscape. Traders operating in the Bitcoin market encounter numerous challenges when it comes to making informed decisions due to the inherent volatility of the cryptocurrency market. Given …
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