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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}
}
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