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

