Bitcoin – asset or currency? Revealing users’ hidden intentions
- DIGITAL CURRENCIES ARE A GLOBALLY SPREADING PHENOMENON THAT IS FREQUENTLY AND PROMINENTLY ADDRESSED BY MEDIA, POLITICS AND ACADEMIA. WE AIM AT GIVING EMPIRICAL INSIGHTS ON WHETHER USERS’ INTEREST REGARDING DIGITAL CURRENCIES IS DRIVEN BY ITS APPEAL AS AN ASSET OR ITS UTILITY AS A CURRENCY. BASED ON OUR EVALUATION, WE FIND STRONG INDICATIONS THAT ESPECIALLY UNINFORMED USERS APPROACHING BITCOIN ARE NOT PRIMARILY INTERESTED IN AN ALTERNATIVE TRANSACTION SYSTEM, BUT SEEK TO PARTICIPATE IN AN ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENT VEHICLE.
| Author: | Florian Glaser, Kai Zimmermann, Martin HaferkornGND, Moritz Christian Weber, Michael Siering |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-579648 |
| ISSN: | 1866-1238 |
| Parent Title (English): | EFL quarterly : an E-Finance Lab publication |
| Publisher: | E-Finance Lab e.V. |
| Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2014 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2014 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2021/01/28 |
| Volume: | 2014 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Page Number: | 2 |
| First Page: | 4 |
| Last Page: | 5 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 47724114X |
| Institutes: | Angeschlossene und kooperierende Institutionen / E-Finance Lab e.V. |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
