Top Research Papers on Cryptocurrency

There is room to pay zakat using cryptocurrencies and from investments made on crypto assets as long as they have been screened and classified as Shariah-compliant, they can be qualified to be part of one’s wealth from whichZakat shall be paid.

It is suggested that cryptocurrencies have outgrown the use case of mere speculation in Turkey and motivate further research on the diffusion and usage patterns of cryptocurrency in emerging markets and innovation in general in the context of lead markets.

A detailed survey on blockchains, mining based on bitcoins, and its insurance is made in this article.

The article provides a first critical exam of the approach taken by EU Regulators and Courts regarding cryptoactivities to see if a new European regulation on “encrypted” financial services will really be born.

This explorative analysis sheds light on the potential value consumers attribute to cryptocurrencies while opening new research avenues toward a better understanding of the market and its mediation by platform algorithms as potential market devices.

Please don't refer to cryptocurrencies as "crypto". Crypto already has a definition and it has nothing to do with cryptocurrencies.

The package open-crypto is introduced, which allows to retrieve data from over 100 of the most popular and liquid exchanges world-wide and stored in a relational SQL database and therefore accessible from many different programming languages.

Using repeated large-scale surveys of U.S. households, we study the cryptocurrency investment decisions and motives of households relative to other financial assets. Cryptocurrency holders tend to be young, white, male and more libertarian relative to non-crypto holders. They expect much higher rates of returns for crypto and perceive it as relatively safer than do other households. They also view it as a better hedge against inflation. For those holding cryptocurrencies, changes in Bitcoin prices translate into their purchases of durable goods. Finally, exogenously-provided information about ...

The purpose of this research is to determine whether or not cryptocurrencies are legitimate in Islam as both a currency and a commodity. This is research done in a library. The research is descriptive-analytical and uses Jasser Auda's Islamic legal philosophy approach to try to explain cryptocurrency law. The findings demonstrate that, from the standpoint of Islamic legal philosophy, the law governing cryptocurrency as a currency is comprehensive (tafsil). Whether it is halal or not by looking at how the goal was achieved, specifically (benefit). If the cryptocurrency has clear benefits, such ...

This paper aims to present a systematic review of the interactions between Big Data and cryptocurrency and serve as the one stop reference directory for researchers with regard to identifying research gaps and directing future explorations.

This paper argues that cryptocurrency, including cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, should be understood as qualified property, and develops a new analysis of property in cryptocurrencies, taking into account both the variety of cryptocurrencies which exist and the doctrine operating currently in property law, including its theoretical underpinnings.

Evidence is found that negative perceptions of Musk’s performance led to a decline in the price of Dogecoin, which dropped 23.4% during the time Musk was on air, showing that cryptocurrencies are affected in real time by the behaviors of crypto-tastemakers.

This study is the first to explore brand personality and brand identification within the context of digital currencies and indicates that crypto users link brand personality with brand identification differently depending on certain personality traits.

   This article analyses the current state and trends in the regulation of trading of crypto assets and crypto exchanges at the global level. The enacted laws and regulations of the jurisdictions of the United States of America (herein-after referred to as USA) and the European Union (hereinafter referred to as EU) are indicated. It is emphasised that the regulatory framework of the EU is an example of effective international regulation. It is noted that the legislation in the USA regarding the regulation of the crypto exchanges and crypto assets is at the development stage, and there are cont...

Low uptake by users is revealed in the integration of crypto assets into the traditional journal model, which may be attributed to a resistance to new technology and underestimation of the incentives required.

The work suggests that there is need for private-public co-operation for bringing an effective regulation on Cryptocurrency transaction and opined that there needs for a comprehensive global Crypto regulations for controlling the Cryptocurrencies crimes.

Purpose — This study aims to examine Islamic cryptocurrencies and their dependency on foreign exchange markets in vine copula architecture (CD-Vine) and provide a framework for detecting complex dependence structures, risk management implications, and hedging effectiveness. Design/Methodology/Approach — This study used gold-backed cryptocurrencies and three fiat currencies. The vine copula approach was preferred because it applies several distributions and estimates complex dependencies. Hedging effectiveness was measured by constructing simulation-based portfolios optimised with DCC-t-Copula...

This study aims to explore cryptocurrency investment experiences from an emerging market context. This study investigates the lived experiences of cryptocurrency investors, the potential risks and benefits of the cryptocurrency investment, and the potential prospects from cryptocurrency investors’ perspectives. The current study intends to adopt a qualitative research approach to address the phenomenon of the study. The qualitative study employs interviews as a data collection tool that allows researchers to seek people’s stories from their lived experiences. In this regard, the interpretivism...

This analysis suggests that both new and experienced users struggle with general and domain-specific UX issues that, aside from frustration and disengagement, might lead to dangerous errors and irreversible monetary losses.

This paper seeks to structure and justify the hypotheses and conclusions of CRYPTO20, an autonomous cryptocurrency-only portfolio composed by utilizing an index strategy, and allows for access to a diverse cryptocurrency portfolio by holding a single token.

Cryptocurrencies have gained substantial traction globally, including in India, leading to an increase in crypto-related crimes and posing significant legal challenges. The legal landscape in India is complex and evolving, with the Reserve Bank of India's initial ban in 2018 being overturned by the Supreme Court in 2020. However, the regulatory framework remains ambiguous. The anonymity and pseudonymity of cryptocurrency transactions make them attractive for money laundering, tax evasion, and other economic crimes, exacerbated by the lack of clear regulations. The Indian government has propose...

A comprehensive study of cryptocurrency-based technical support scams, which uncovers two categories of scammers that either request secret key phrase submissions from their victims or direct payments to their digital wallets.

This paper investigates the relationship of cryptocurrencies with four traditional assets: equity, fiat currencies, crude oil, and gold in Nigeria, Vietnam, the Philippines, Turkey, and Peru. According to Statista’s 2020 Cryptocurrency Adoption Survey, these five countries showed high levels of crypto usage and ownership. Emerging economies attract the attention of portfolio managers due to the high returns associated with assets originating from these countries. The paper explores the possibility of creating a multi-asset portfolio, including cryptocurrencies. Vector Autoregression Granger ca...

Crypto is a non-wuud commodity that is digital using cryptography. The legality of crypto assets in Indonesia has not received firm regulation in their use, and there is a need for a supervisory body that regulates all transaction activities for legal protection for investors in trading digital assets. The research method used in this study is to use normative juridical research methods, using a statutory approach (statute approach) and a conceptual approach (conceptual approach). The result of the discussion of this study is that for the legality of crypto assets, Bank Indonesia places them a...

Risk, effort expectancy, social influence, social influence and financial literacy are found to have a significant relationship with a Malaysian young adult’s intention to invest in cryptocurrency, while Regulation is the sole factor that has no impact on a Malaysian young adult’s consideration to invest in cryptocurrency.

This project is to create a website that will create awareness and will help new user who want to invest, sell, buy crypto currency by giving them all the historic data as well as latest live data and detailed statistic, with help of Rapid API prediction of market rate.

Tujuan dari penelitian ini yaitu untuk mengetahui tanggung jawab pelaku usaha terhadap konsumen pemilik aset crypto. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu penelitian hukum normatif dengan menggunakan metode pendekatan perundang-undangan. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, dapat disimpulkan bahwa pihak pihak dalam transaksi aset crypto yaitu Bursa Berjangka dan Anggota Bursa Berjangka. Untuk Anggota Bursa Berjangka sendiri terdiri dari Pedagang Fisik Aset Kripto, Pelanggan Aset Kripto, Lembaga Kliring Berjangka, serta Lembaga Tempat Penyimpanan Aset Kripto. Pedagang disini berpe...

World took huge step in adoption of cryptocurrency and now it's time for bank to get evolved itself with crypto assets as these assets removal of intermediaries, fees and other roadblocks to large transaction, creating a faster and less expensive global payment network.

This paper replicates and extends the approach of Yousaf et al. by developing new methods to extract transactions using the public blockchain and the interface of the cryptocurrency exchange Evonax, and is able to identify 30,402 transactions between the launch of Evonax in February 2018 and December 31, 2022.

The study is keen to further examine the impact of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on international fund transfers and sheds light onto current and future trends of cryptocurrencies and blockchain.

Regulators’ and policymakers’ efforts to understand and develop an adequate regulatory approach to crypto assets, tokens, and the distributed ledger technology (DLT) in general are analyzed.

An improved crypto-hygiene as the guideline to mitigate and minimize the risk of cyber-attack is proposed which may also assist beginners who wish to involve with cryptocurrency or any blockchain applications in gaining some insights and opinions regarding blockchain and cryptocurrency.

This work presents the first systematic analysis of the effect of broken primitives on Bitcoin and reveals a wide range of possible effects depending on the primitive and type of breakage, ranging from minor privacy violations to a complete breakdown of the currency.

PurposeThe purpose of the research paper is to investigate the relationship between personality traits and investment decisions in the crypto market, including cryptocurrencies and NFTs. The study aims to explore the effect of dark personalities and the big five personalities on investment decisions in the crypto market.Design/methodology/approachThe research was conducted through two online questionnaire studies. In Study 1, data were collected from the general public, while in Study 2, data were collected from crypto investors. The researchers analyzed the effect of dark personalities and th...

This paper is an extended version of a research article previously accepted at the CryptoEx Workshop at IEEE ICBC 2024 and is able to identify 30,402 transactions between the launch of Evonax in February 2018 and December 31, 2022, which should be close to a complete set of all transactions.

This paper utilizes the Herfindahl Index to assess university business major student investment preferences regarding cryptocurrency. This paper seeks to determine which cryptocurrency investment options are most desirable and, more importantly, ascertain the reasons for said investments. This paper reviews the real estate-based currency of the French Revolution in order to provide historical lineage for the popularity of cryptocurrency investment today.

This study investigates the knowledge, expertise, and buying habits of people who shop using cryptocurrencies and challenges the conventional idea linking extensive knowledge to increased cryptocurrency usage, suggesting other factors at play.

Aims: To determine the investment feasibility of evaluating cryptocurrency opportunities as an investment product under the possibility of crypto price valuation selection. The study analyzes three indicators: asset price returns in unrelated time, selection of cryptocurrency investment price weights, and crypto price forward contract opportunities on ARCH-GARCH probability forecasts in the selection of price valuations by individual cryptocurrency prices. Study Design: Quantitative research. Place and Duration of Study: The period from 10 September 2021 to 4 September 2022 using sample data...

Purpose. The aim of the article is the determination of the normative and legal regulation of the cryptocurrency market, operations with cryptocurrencies; study of the main draft laws on the regulation of legal relations related to such assets; analysis of the activity of crypto exchanges in Ukraine and the world, prospects and possibilities of state control over trading operations as well as financial operations; studying the peculiarities of legal regulation and approaches to cryptocurrency. Methodology of research. The methodological basis of the article is an ordered system of general sci...

This research highlights the importance of using machine learning for detecting crypto malware and compares the effectiveness of traditional methods with deep learning techniques, and explores the use of machine learning algorithms for detecting and preventing these threats.

The incorporation of Transformer models alongside Time Embeddings significantly improves the precision of stock market predictions by effectively capturing intricate temporal relationships and mitigating the presence of overly simplistic assumptions.

A nuanced approach is developed that distinguishes between three archetypes of tokens: currency, investment, and utility tokens for EU securities regulation, and develops policy proposals for their regulation.

Hertfordshire Laser cut plywood, 0.6mm galvanised steel sheet 700cm(l) x 220cm(h) x 500cm(w) The main installation is based on fifteen months research into historical European mapping focussed on the role of ornament in maps and the depiction of mythical places including heaven and hell. The installation is a cartographically inspired architectural grid, attempting to contain ambiguous ornaments that, unwilling to be held by the grid's rigid embrace, spill out over the pavilion floor. The Ptolemaic, and later, the Jeffersonian grid, were powerful symbolic and empirical aids to the expansion of...

This comment explores the novelty of cryptocurrency, its legal ambiguity in the realms of securities, property, and tax law, and the difficulties arising from insolvent crypto-exchange company’s estates within the context of the United States Bankruptcy Code. For the purposes of this comment, individuals who invested in crypto-exchange platforms will be referred to as “customers” rather than “investors” to avoid potential confusion in the context of 11 U.S.C. § 507 of the Bankruptcy Code. Customers who invested with insolvent crypto-exchange companies are concerned about being last in line for...

Legal regulators are introduced in the field of mining, cryptocurrency, crypto assets in the Kyrgyz Republic in order to avoid possible legal gaps that can lead to negative consequences in relation to the state, ranging from various shadow schemes in the economy that can slow down the digital transformation of the country.

Investasi kripto (Cryptocurrency) sangat berkembang saat ini baik secara global maupun di indonesia, Cryptocurrency dapat digunakan sebagai alat pembayaran atau mata uang yang merupakan tujuan pertama diciptakannya mata uang tersebut, dan sisi lainnya adalah sebagai  komoditas atau sebagai aset digital yang lazimnya disebut sebagai Aset Kripto atau Crypto Asset. Sebagai alat pembayaran, cryptocurrency dilarang di Indonesia tetapi sebagai aset di perbolehkan untuk diperdagangkan. Penelitian ini membahas bagaimana tata kelola pembentukan regulasi terkait perdagangan mata uang kripto (cryptocurre...

An architecture that integrates artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technologies to investigate and protect against instances of cryptocurrency fraud is introduced and various problems and challenges in blockchain and crypto forensics to investigate cryptocurrency fraud are discussed.

It is argued that these cryptocurrency conferences can be categorized as a ‘partial’ sharing economy platform that reduces the transaction cost for public and private actors to share knowledge about the latest trends and threats about crypto-laundering and reduce transaction costs for networking.

Investigation of the consequences of ambiguity and psychological variables on cryptocurrency valuation and artificial intelligence applications in the cryptocurrency market offers vital insights into how investing professionals might build appropriate placement methods aided by artificial intelligence.

We provide an overview of crypto-related scams, including investment scams, Ponzi schemes, and more recently, rug pulls that are commonly seen in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) projects. We then discuss data sources for studying Initial Coin O ff ering (ICO) scams, before examining the case of PlusToken, the largest crypto scam, AnubisDAO, the prototypical rug pull, and Luno’s anti-scam initiative, a good prototype for other cryptocurrency exchanges and service entities to follow. User protection and education are crucial in preventing scams, despite the fact that they may require e ff orts from...