Why I Backed a Bitcoin Start-up

http://www.forbes.com/sites/juliemeyer/2014/08/19/why-i-backed-a-bitcoin-start-up/

Bitcoin: Getting Started In Trading (NASDAQ)

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/bitcoin-getting-started-in-trading-cm379094

The digital traces of bubbles: feedback cycles between socio-economic signals in the Bitcoin economy

http://www.sg.ethz.ch/media/publication_files/J._R._Soc._Interface-2014-Garcia-.pdf

What is the role of social interactions in the creation of price bubbles? Answering
this question requires obtaining collective behavioural traces generated by the
activity of a large number of actors. Digital currencies offer a unique possibility
tomeasure socio-economic signals fromsuch digital traces. Here,we focus on Bitcoin,
the most popular cryptocurrency. Bitcoin has experienced periods of rapid
increase in exchange rates (price) followed by sharp decline;we hypothesize that
these fluctuations are largely driven by the interplay between different social
phenomena. We thus quantify four socio-economic signals about Bitcoin from
large datasets: price on online exchanges, volume of word-of-mouth communication
in online social media, volume of information search and user base
growth. By using vector autoregression, we identify two positive feedback
loops that lead to price bubbles in the absence of exogenous stimuli: one
driven bywordof mouth, and the other by newBitcoin adopters.We also observe
that spikes in information search, presumably linked to external events, precede
drastic price declines. Understanding the interplay between the socio-economic
signals we measured can lead to applications beyond cryptocurrencies to other
phenomena that leave digital footprints, such as online social network usage.

How Bitcoin Went Legit

http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/news/1306983/how-bitcoin-went-legit/

Bitcoin - good for who?

http://www.neweconomics.org/blog/entry/Bitcoin-good-for-who

Bitcoin Foundation Seeks More Time to Address Virtual Currency Rules

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/bitcoin-foundation-seeks-more-time-to-address-virtual-currency-rules/

Could the so-called Bitcoin 'price crash' be good for the cryptocurrency?

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/willardfoxton2/100014074/could-the-so-called-bitcoin-price-crash-be-good-for-the-cryptocurrency/

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An Order-of-Magnitude Estimate of the Relative Sustainability of the Bitcoin Network

https://cdn.panteracapital.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Relative-Sustainability-of-the-Bitcoin-Network.pdf

A critical assessment of the Bitcoin mining industry, gold production industry, the legacy banking system, and the production of physical currency

Executive Summary

There has been a lot of uncertainty surrounding the sustainability of the Bitcoin network, with thisfascinating
nascent technology facing several unsubstantiated claims by uninformed individuals that Bitcoin is highly
unsustainable from a social, economic and environmental point of view. This paper aims to disprove or
support these claims about the sustainability of the Bitcoin network, and provide an order-of-magnitude
comparison of the relative sustainability of Bitcoin when compared with the incumbent banking industry, the
gold production industry, and the process of printing and minting of physical currency.
Widely available public information strongly refutes claims that Bitcoin is unsustainable, and shows that the
social, environmental and economic impacts are a minuscule fraction of the impacts that the legacy wealth
and monetary systems have on our society and environment.

The necessity of a centralized voice for Bitcoin

http://www.coinmanual.com/the-necessity-of-a-centralized-voice-for-bitcoin/

Blockchain revolution: open source democracy for the 99%

https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/nozomi-hayase/blockchain-revolution-open-source-democracy-for-99

A CryptoCubic Protocol for Hacker-Proof Off-Chain Bitcoin Transactions

http://www.bincoin.com/cryptocubic.pdf

How Should Bitcoin Be Regulated?

http://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/32273/183UK.pdf?sequence=1

Abstract:

The lack of clarity about Bitcoin’s legal framework has meant that none of the
regulators across the EU have yet achieved sufficient clarity in the legal treatment
of Bitcoin and its stakeholders. This uncertainty poses a number of substantial
risks to Bitcoin stakeholders and creates challenges for regulatory authorities.
Therefore, there is a need for a clear strategy for Bitcoin’s regulation aiming to
ensure the maximum possible balance between the interests of Bitcoin stakeholders
longing for the preservation of Bitcoin’s benefits and mitigation of relevant risks,
and the interests of regulators striving for ensuring the compliance of Bitcoin
stakeholders with the law. In this paper, the author develops such a strategy. Its
implementation provides for the official recognition of Bitcoin as an unregulated
technology, the recognition of that Bitcoin users interacting between each other
and Bitcoin miners are outside the regulatory scope, and the efficient application
of existing legal mechanisms to Bitcoin merchants, Bitcoin exchanges and the
relations between these categories of Bitcoin stakeholders with Bitcoin users. Thus,
the balanced regulation of Bitcoin is achieved in the form of a partial regulation
of the usage of Bitcoin at different levels of Bitcoin’s functionality.

Keywords:
Bitcoin, Banking Regulation, EU Law, Payment Systems, Regulation

States debate digital currency

http://phys.org/news/2014-08-states-debate-digital-currency.html

Bitcoin Rush Compared to California Gold Rush in 19th Century

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/bitcoin-rush-compared-california-gold-rush-19th-century-1459317

Massive returns on early Bitcoin investment helped WikiLeaks survive

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/wikileaks-google-assange-bitcoin-8000-percent/

Messing With a Bitcoin Scammer

http://www.thecleverest.com/messing-with-a-bitcoin-scammer/

The Bitcoin Dinner Solution

http://lfb.org/the-bitcoin-dinner-solution/

Overstock’s Radical Plan to Reinvent the Stock Market With Bitcoin

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/overstock-and-cryptocurrency/