Everything about Cryptocurrency

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: CryptocurrencyA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Cryptocurrency trading: a comprehensive surveyInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Red Team BluesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Risks and Returns of CryptocurrencyCited 932 times
5. Go sideways: BitcoinA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: MoneroA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Risks and Returns of Cryptocurrency

  Yukun Liu, Aleh Tsyvinski · 2020 · The Review of Financial Studies · 932 citations

• Trading and arbitrage in cryptocurrency markets

  Igor Makarov, Antoinette Schoar · 2020 · Journal of Financial Economics · 838 citations

• Dynamic connectedness and integration in cryptocurrency markets

  Qiang Ji, Elie Bouri, Chi Keung Marco Lau · 2019 · International Review of Financial Analysis · 611 citations

• Common Risk Factors in Cryptocurrency

  YUKUN LIU, ALEH TSYVINSKI, XI WU · 2022 · The Journal of Finance · 611 citations

• Initial Coin Offerings: Financing Growth with Cryptocurrency Token Sales

  Sabrina T Howell, Marina Niessner, David Yermack · 2019 · The Review of Financial Studies · 483 citations

• Negative bubbles and shocks in cryptocurrency markets

  John Fry, Eng-Tuck Cheah · 2016 · International Review of Financial Analysis · 450 citations

• A novel cryptocurrency price trend forecasting model based on LightGBM

  Xiaolei Sun, Mingxi Liu, Zeqian Sima · 2020 · Finance Research Letters · 442 citations

• Volatility connectedness in the cryptocurrency market: Is Bitcoin a dominant cryptocurrency?

  Shuyue Yi, Zishuang Xu, Gang-Jin Wang · 2018 · International Review of Financial Analysis · 415 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Cryptocurrency trading: a comprehensive survey

  Fan Fang, Carmine Ventre, Michail Basios · 2022 · Financial Innovation · 362 citations

• The cryptocurrency uncertainty index

  Brian M. Lucey, Samuel A. Vigne, Larisa Yarovaya · 2022 · Finance Research Letters · 258 citations

• A systematic literature review of investor behavior in the cryptocurrency markets

  José Almeida, Tiago Cruz Gonçalves · 2023 · Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance · 215 citations

• Forecasting Cryptocurrency Prices Using LSTM, GRU, and Bi-Directional LSTM: A Deep Learning Approach

  Phumudzo Lloyd Seabe, Claude Rodrigue Bambe Moutsinga, Edson Pindza · 2023 · Fractal and Fractional · 200 citations

• Impact of Russia-Ukraine war attention on cryptocurrency: Evidence from quantile dependence analysis

  Rabeh Khalfaoui, Giray Gozgor, John W. Goodell · 2023 · Finance Research Letters · 179 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Red Team BluesCory Doctorow · 2023
• Number Go UpZeke Faux · 2023
• The Infinite MachineCamila Russo · 2020
• Going InfiniteMichael Lewis · 2023
• CryptocurrenciesMark Grabowski · 2019
• Digital goldNathaniel Popper · 2015
• Fintech in Islamic FinanceS. Nazim Ali, Umar A. Oseni · 2019
• Cryptocurrencies and CryptoassetsAndrew Haynes, Peter Yeoh · 2020

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