Everything about Bitcoin

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: BitcoinA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Testing the safe-haven properties of gold and bitcoin in the backdrop of COVID-19: A wavelet quantile correlation approachInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Bitcoin BillionairesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Bitcoin: Economics, Technology, and GovernanceCited 1,496 times
5. Go sideways: CryptocurrencyA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: NxtA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Bitcoin: Economics, Technology, and Governance

  Rainer Böhme, Nicolas Christin, Benjamin Edelman · 2015 · Journal of Economic Perspectives · 1,496 citations

• Bitcoin and Beyond: A Technical Survey on Decentralized Digital Currencies

  Florian Tschorsch, Bjorn Scheuermann · 2016 · IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials · 1,365 citations

• Bitcoin, gold and the dollar – A GARCH volatility analysis

  Anne Haubo Dyhrberg · 2016 · Finance Research Letters · 1,363 citations

• On the hedge and safe haven properties of Bitcoin: Is it really more than a diversifier?

  Elie Bouri, Peter Molnár, Georges Azzi · 2017 · Finance Research Letters · 1,311 citations

• Bitcoin: Medium of exchange or speculative assets?

  Dirk G. Baur, KiHoon Hong, Adrian D. Lee · 2018 · Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money · 1,234 citations

• The inefficiency of Bitcoin

  Andrew Urquhart · 2016 · Economics Letters · 1,226 citations

• Speculative bubbles in Bitcoin markets? An empirical investigation into the fundamental value of Bitcoin

  Eng-Tuck Cheah, John Fry · 2015 · Economics Letters · 1,208 citations

• Volatility estimation for Bitcoin: A comparison of GARCH models

  Paraskevi Katsiampa · 2017 · Economics Letters · 981 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Testing the safe-haven properties of gold and bitcoin in the backdrop of COVID-19: A wavelet quantile correlation approach

  Anoop S Kumar, Steven Raj Padakandla · 2022 · Finance Research Letters · 277 citations

• Equilibrium Bitcoin Pricing

  BRUNO BIAIS, CHRISTOPHE BISIÈRE, MATTHIEU BOUVARD · 2023 · The Journal of Finance · 225 citations

• The Non-Fungible Token (NFT) Market and Its Relationship with Bitcoin and Ethereum

  Lennart Ante · 2022 · FinTech · 219 citations

• Risk transmissions between bitcoin and traditional financial assets during the COVID-19 era: The role of global uncertainties

  Ahmed H. Elsayed, Giray Gozgor, Chi Keung Marco Lau · 2022 · International Review of Financial Analysis · 212 citations

• Detecting Mixing Services via Mining Bitcoin Transaction Network With Hybrid Motifs

  Jiajing Wu, Jieli Liu, Weili Chen · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems · 192 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Bitcoin BillionairesBen Mezrich · 2019
• BlockchainStephen P. Williams · 2019
• Going InfiniteMichael Lewis · 2023
• Cryptocurrency Investing for DummiesDummies Staff, Kiana Danial · 2019
• BitcoinJose Pagliery · 2014
• Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital CryptocurrenciesAndreas M. Antonopoulos · 2014
• The age of cryptocurrencyPaul Vigna · 2015
• Blockchain RevolutionDon Tapscott · 2016

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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