Bitcoin: a Money-like Informational Commodity
Computers and Society
2014-02-20 v1
Abstract
The question "what is Bitcoin" allows for many answers depending on the objectives aimed at when providing such answers. The question addressed in this paper is to determine a top-level classification, or type, for Bitcoin. We will classify Bitcoin as a system of type money-like informational commodity (MLIC).
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@article{arxiv.1402.4778,
title = {Bitcoin: a Money-like Informational Commodity},
author = {Jan A. Bergstra and Peter Weijland},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.4778},
year = {2014}
}