Abstract. A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. Digital signatures provide…
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Custody in the age of digital assets

The market for digital assets has evolved dramatically since the release of Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin white paper nearly ten years ago. From Bitcoin’s origins as a peer-to-peer system of value…
Read MoreA Short Introduction to the World of Cryptocurrencies

In this article, we give a short introduction to cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. The focus of the introduction is on Bitcoin, but many elements are shared by other blockchain implementations…
Read MoreBitcoin & the Rise of Digital Gold

Over the last decade, Bitcoin has grown from a small-scale experiment into the dominant leader of a new asset class, with a $90 billion market capitalisation and the potential to…
Read MoreTell Me about Bitcoin

Tell Me About Bitcoin What does Bitcoin intend to solve? Bitcoin was created to put a global, digital, peg on fiat currency. Since 1971, money around the world has not…
Read MoreThe Investment Case for Bitcoin

Bitcoin as a Potential Store of Value Buying in Bitcoin can seem to be difficult, but it is much easier when you break it down into actions. You don’t have…
Read MoreTokenized Securities & Commercial Real Estate

Asset tokenization is an area of explosive growth for the blockchain industry. Since Bitcoin’s earliest days, attempts have been made to use bitcoins as “tokens” to represent assets. Early on,…
Read MoreThe State of Stablecoins 2019

Hype vs. Reality in the Race for Stable, Global, Digital Money Today, money is broken in some parts of the world – governments have a hard time maintaining stable value…
Read MoreMitigating Capital Risks in Crypto

Cryptographic assets (crypto assets) – has a market capitalization of just under US$130B and is the fastest-growing segment of the fintech landscape in terms of projects, institutional adoption, and investment….
Read MoreSquare, Inc. Bitcoin Investment Whitepaper

On October 7, 2020, Square, Inc. purchased approximately 4,709 bitcoins at an aggregate purchase price of $50 million. Square has been a leader in the bitcoin space since 2018 through…
Read MoreModeling Bitcoin’s Value with Scarcity

Satoshi Nakamoto published the bitcoin white paper 31/Oct 2008, created the bitcoin genesis block 03/Jan 2009, and released the bitcoin code 08/Jan 2009. So begins a journey that leads to…
Read MoreMegatrend Digitalisation

Is Bitcoin outshining gold? The stock-to-flow approach originating in commodity-market analysis serves to quantify the “hardness” of an asset. Applied to Bitcoin, an unusually strong correlation emerges between the market…
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