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Clark, J. R.; Niederjohn, M. Scott; Wood, William C. – Social Education, 2018
The cryptocurrency Bitcoin has been prominently featured in the news recently. Its ascension in value has been nothing short of extraordinary. This article briefly explains what Bitcoin is and how it works. The more challenging question is what Bitcoin--this cryptographic breakthrough--really is: currency, like the U.S. dollar, an asset, more like…
Descriptors: Monetary Systems, Definitions, Computer Networks, Consumer Economics
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Serapiglia, Anthony; Serapiglia, Constance; McIntyre, Joshua – Information Systems Education Journal, 2015
Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, et al "cryptocurrencies" have enjoyed a meteoric rise in popularity and use as a way of performing transactions on the Internet and beyond. While gaining market valuations of billions of dollars and generating much popular press in doing so, little has been academically published on the Computer…
Descriptors: Monetary Systems, Information Technology, Information Systems, Internet