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arXiv:1308.6760cs.CY

Practical Aspects of the Bitcoin System

Artus Krohn-Grimberghe Christoph Sorge

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Abstract

Digital payment schemes show an ever increasing importance. Out of the countless different schemes available this article focuses on the popular Bitcoin system. The authors provide a description of Bitcoin's unique technological basis and its accompanying ecosystem of users, miners, trading platforms and vendors. Furthermore, this article discusses Bitcoin's currency-like features and the first regulatory actions take in the European Union and in the United States of America.

arXiv comments
Covers content till end of May 2013. Was submitted to Communications of the ACM but got rejected ("well written but out of scope")
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cs.CYComputers and Society cs.CRCryptography and Security

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