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Is Bitcoin a Waste of Resources?
Abstract: Do Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies play a useful social role, or do they represent a social waste? Bitcoin is a decentralized recordkeeping system, with updating of the record of transactions in the blockchain.
JEL Classification: E50; G23; E59;
https://doi.org/10.20955/r.2018.107-15
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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Part of Series: Review
Publication Date: 2018
Volume: 100
Issue: 2
Pages: 107-15