Showing posts with label Blockchain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blockchain. Show all posts
Monday, April 26, 2021

25/4/21: Impact Finance perspective of the systemic threats to blockchain applications

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  New paper (pre-print version):  Gurdgiev, Constantin and Fleming, Adam, Informational efficiency and cybersecurity threats: A Social Impac...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

21/1/20: Investor Fear and Uncertainty in Cryptocurrencies

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Our paper on behavioral biases in cryptocurrencies trading is now published by the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance  volume ...
Friday, January 10, 2020

9/1/20: Herding and Anchoring in Cryptocurrency Markets

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Our new paper, with Daniel O'Loughlin, titled "Herding and Anchoring in Cryptocurrency Markets: Investor Reaction to Fear and Unc...
Friday, September 20, 2019

20/9/19: New paper on Cryptos pricing

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Our paper " Fractal dynamics and wavelet analysis: Deep volatility and return properties of Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple " is no...
Thursday, December 6, 2018

5/12/18: Bitcoin: Sell-off is a structural break to the downside of the already negative trend

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Bitcoin has suffered a significant drop off in terms of its value against the USD in November. Despite trading within USD6,400-6,500 range...
Thursday, November 15, 2018

15/11/18: BIS on payments systems and cryptos / blockchain

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On November 1, Agustín Carstens, General Manager, Bank for International Settlements delivered a pretty punchy speech on the topic of paym...
Monday, September 3, 2018

3/9/18: Bakkt: One New Exchange, Two Old Exchanges, Same Crypto Story?

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My comment on the new #cryptocurrency exchange project involving Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Micr...
Saturday, May 19, 2018

19/5/18: The Scary Inefficiency & Environmental Costs of Bitcoin

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Bitcoin is just one of the cryptocurrencies, albeit the dominant one by market capitalisation and mining assets deployment. The cryptocurr...
Friday, February 2, 2018

2/2/18: CFR: What Financial Economics Tells Us About Bitcoin

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My new contribution to the Cayman Financial Review  is available, covering the key aspects of the fundamentals (or lac of such) behind the...
Thursday, December 21, 2017

21/12/17: Blockchain is Just Your Cup of Tea...

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Undoubtedly, undeniably, and absolutely consistent with the Efficient Markets Hypothesis, the Long Island Iced Tea rebranding as a Long Bl...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

20/12/17: My Forex Analytix Interview Link

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My today's interview with Forex Analytix  on Cryptocurrencies and Central Banks is now on youtube, here:  https://www.youtube.com/watc...
Monday, December 18, 2017

18/12/17: Of Winners and Whiners: Bitcoin's Path to Value

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One of the key Bitcoin issues is concentration of miners. Concentration in Bitcoin markets occurs primarily due to high cost of energy use...
Saturday, December 2, 2017

2/12/17: Bitcoin Craze Heads for the Moon

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Just about 10 days ago, I wrote about the Bitcoin being a bubble. And since then, few things happened: The bubble has now gone into pub...
Tuesday, November 21, 2017

20/11/17: Bitcoin: an Unknowable Bubble?

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There is a much-discussed in the crypto-sphere chart making rounds these days, plotting Bitcoin price dynamics against the historical bubb...
Saturday, October 14, 2017

14/10/17: Bitcoin's Rise: Bentleys in Vancouver?

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Two charts highlight the recent dynamics of #Bitcoin rise back to the top of the newsflow: and decomposing the above: As a fan o...
Friday, February 24, 2017

24/2/17: Distributed ledger technology in payments, clearing, & settlement

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A new research paper from the U.S. Federal Reserve System, titled “ Distributed ledger technology in payments, clearing, and settlement ” ...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

18/1/17: Bitcoin Demand: It's a Chinese Tale

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Bitcoin demand by geographic location of trading activity: H/T for the chart to Dave Lauer @dlauer It shows exactly what it says:...
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

17/1/17: Economics of Blockchain

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One of the first systemic papers on economic of blockchain, via NBER ( http://www.nber.org/papers/w22952 ) by Christian Catalini and Joshu...
Tuesday, January 3, 2017

2/1/16: Financial digital disruptors and cyber-security risks

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My and Shaen Corbet's new paper titled Financial digital disruptors and cyber-security risks: paired and systemic (January 2, 2017), ...
Thursday, November 10, 2016

9/11/16: Bitcoin vs Ether: MIIS Students Case Study

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Following last night's election results, Bitcoin rose sharply in value, in line with gold, while other digital currencies largely fail...