Bitcoin may have a large carbon footprint, but cleaner digital currencies aren't going to prevent an environmental disaster.
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Satoshi Nakamoto proposed Bitcoin in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
Bitcoin and other digital currencies have been running wild in recent years, soaring and then plunging in value. A few stories from The Conversation's archive offer a glimpse into their world.
Bitcoin is often criticized for using up tons of energy. But its carbon footprint may not be that bad.
Bitcoin needs regulation to bring it into the mainstream but this goes against its libertarian ideals.
Evidence of past price manipulation of bitcoin and the just-launched Justice Department investigation highlight the need to take steps against cryptocurrency fraud.
Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are susceptible to fraud and price manipulation, just like any other type of investment.
One of the hot questions regarding the bitcoin since the first ones were created in 2009 is its real value. We will try as well to answer to this question using two concepts in economics and finance.
Enterprising cryptocurrency enthusiasts have found a way to use your computer processor and electricity to make themselves money. What is cryptojacking, and how does it work?
With countries such as China and Sweden are studying plans to create a new form of money – a central-bank digital currency. CBDCs risk revolutionizing both the way money is created and distributed.
The Micronesian Republic of the Marshall Islands is about to become the first country to base its national currency on cryptomoney. Analysis of an absurd political decision.
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This episode is all about bitcoin. Will it be the currency of the future? Who’s trying to capitalise on the legal loopholes of cryptocurrencies? And is it possible to make mining them more green.
When we lust for riches, fear being left behind and identify strongly with some moral cause all at once, reason and willpower don't really stand a chance.
There’s no magic fix in sight for the amount of energy gobbled by cryptocurrency miners – but at least the method used is relatively secure.
Crypto billionaires enjoy their Caribbean playground but poorer locals with little knowledge of the tech are excluded.
While sovereign governments need to develop coherent frameworks to regulate cryptocurrency, permanent solutions will be found through international co-operation.
Australian regulators face similar problems as their Australian counterparts in getting cryptocurrency platforms to regulate and prosecuting them when things go wrong.
DNA marketplaces powered by the blockchain and new cryptocurrency tokens promise to let you profit from your own genome.
Cryptocurrencies encompass a wide range of technologies, communities and uses. Not all of them are taken seriously.
Kodak's new blockchain and cryptocurrency hint at a new kind of intellectual property, one that doesn't need a government to enforce property rights.
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Co-director, Centre for Digital Business, University of Salford
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Professor of Economics, RMIT University
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Lecturer in Commercial Equity and Disruptive Technologies and the Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
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Professor of International Finance and Commodities, Trinity College Dublin
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Professor of Institutional Economics, RMIT University
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Senior Research Fellow, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University
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Principal Research Fellow, RMIT University
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Associate Professor, University of Reading
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Head, The Cyber Academy, Edinburgh Napier University
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Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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Lecturer in Accounting and Finance, Anglia Ruskin University
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PhD Student, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Financial Law and Regulation, University of East London
