OECD Working Papers on Finance, Insurance and Private Pensions

The Bitcoin Question: Currency versus Trust-less Transfer Technology

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1787/5jz2pwjd9t20-en

The financial crisis has led to a widespread loss of trust in financial intermediaries of all kinds, perhaps helping to open the way towards the general acceptance of alternative technologies. This paper briefly summarises the crypto-currency phenomenon, separating the ‘currency’ issues from...