How is Bitcoin Money?

Theory, Culture & Society

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 53-72

  Bjerg, Ole ^a  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bitcoin; credit; fiat; gold; money; i ek

Indexed keywords

EID: 84950336667     PISSN: 02632764     EISSN: 14603616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0263276415619015     Document Type: Article

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