Lingering concerns cloud the future of digital currency

• Autores: Chris Baraniuk
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2955, 2014, pág. 20
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • But many researchers close to the world's most feted cryptocurrency are expressing concern about the security of its assets, and the stability of the economy that has grown up around it. Jonathan Levin at the University of Oxford runs Coinometrics.com, a Web site dedicated to capturing a statistical picture of Bitcoin as a working economy. Since the record of all Bitcoin transactions is public, Levin has used it to gather data about the distribution and movement of bitcoins. His research has shown that 35% of currently existing bitcoins has not been touched for at least a year.