Questions related to Bitcoin and other Informational Money
arXiv:1305.5956
Abstract
A collection of questions about Bitcoin and its hypothetical relatives Bitguilder and Bitpenny is formulated. These questions concern technical issues about protocols, security issues, issues about the formalizations of informational monies in various contexts, and issues about forms of use and misuse. Some questions are formulated in the more general setting of informational monies and near-monies. We also formulate questions about legal, psychological, and ethical aspects of informational money. Finally we formulate a number of questions concerning the economical merits of and outlooks for Bitcoin.
31 pages. In v2 the section on patterns for use and misuse has been improved and expanded with so-called contaminations. Other small improvements were made and 13 additional references have been included
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- The Unreasonable Fundamental Incertitudes Behind Bitcoin Mining
- The False Premises and Promises of Bitcoin
- Informaticology: combining Computer Science, Data Science, and Fiction Science
- Decision Taking for Selling Thread Startup
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- Modeling and Simulation of the Economics of Mining in the Bitcoin Market
- Modeling and Verification of the Bitcoin Protocol
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- Decision Taking versus Promise Issuing
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- Promises, Impositions, and other Directionals