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Peer-to-Peer Review: The State of Academic Bitcoin Research 2015

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PEER-REVIEW I've updated my epic BITCOIN ACADEMIC PAPER DATABASE  by adding over 280 new papers that were published in 2015. You can download it, and I've also included a link to a separate Google doc where you can make suggestions for papers that might have been missed. If you'd like to read about how I've built the database and the sources I've used, check out my piece about it from last year. Don't expect it to be perfect - there are omissions and the citations are not always error-free - but it's a pretty comprehensive start for anyone looking to embark on furthering the state of knowledge on Bitcoin, cryptocurrency and blockchain more generally. The quality of papers is... um... variable and obviously I haven't had a chance to actually read most of them (as there are now over 550 in total), so don't be surprised if some are not as 'academic' or robust as you might like. That said, the quality of papers has - in general - improved over ...

Peer-to-Peer Review: The State of Academic Bitcoin Research 2014

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PHILOSORAPTOR'S RESEARCH, SOON APPEARING IN ECONOMETRICA JOURNAL Please note: An updated Peer-to-Peer Review 2015 is now available I decided to build a rather large database of academic research on Bitcoin . If you'd like to see it, click on the link. It's a Google Doc, and it allows you to comment if you think there is something I've missed. You can also download it as an Excel spreadsheet. It includes academic, and quasi-academic, research papers, journal articles and theses related to Bitcoin. Admittedly, the definition of 'academic' or 'quasi-academic' is pretty loose. It can include peer-reviewed papers that appear in major journals, to working papers released from university departments and think tanks, to a thesis of a PhD student, to independent research from people with clear expertise. I built this list because I myself like to write quasi-academic articles on Bitcoin , and have been trying to find good quality analysis of cryptocurrency, fru...