Economic and business dimensions: Why bitcoin has value

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 30-32

  Van Alstyne, Marshall ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SCIENCE;

CENTRAL BANK; DEMAND FLUCTUATIONS; PRIME NUMBER; PUBLIC RECORDS; TECHNICAL REGULATION; TECHNOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES;

PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 84899660811     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2594288     Document Type: Review

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