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The following highlights non-university media coverage of specific research papers written by researchers affiliated with the institute.
2022, "The Economic Limits of Bitcoin and Anonymous, Decentralized Trust on the Blockchain", Eric Budish
- How Costly is Trust in the Blockchain?, Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen, Jul 26, 2022
- Bitcoin Holders Have No Choice but to Trust in Chinese Crypto Miners, MarketWatch, Mark Hulbert, May 28, 2021
- Think GameStop Is Wild? Meet Dogecoin, the Meme-Inspired Digital Currency That Began As a Joke and Is Now Worth Billions, Chicago Tribune, John Keilman, Feb 04, 2021
- Bitcoin Is Less Secure Than Most People Think, Marginal Revolution, Alex Tabarrok, Jan 07, 2019
- Why Bitcoin Will Never Replace Gold, Barron’s, Mark Hulbert, Jul 31, 2018
- Rental Attacks Mean That Blockchains Must Evolve or Die, Techcrunch, Abe Othman, Jul 22, 2018
- Bitcoin Looks More Like Gold Than a Currency, Bloomberg, Noah Smith, Jul 11, 2018
- Bitcoin’s Inherent Economics Could Keep It from Ever Being Very Important, MIT Technology Review, Mike Orcutt, Jul 06, 2018
2022, "Cryptocurrencies, Currency Competition, and the Impossible Trinity", co-authored by Harald Uhlig
- Research Paper: Bitcoin Disrupts International Monetary Policy, Bitcoin Magazine, David Hollerith, Aug 29, 2019
2020, "Global Cryptoasset Benchmarking Study", co-authored by Gina Pieters
3rd
- Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption has jumped 80% since the beginning of 2020, according to a study from Cambridge, Markets Insider, Will Daniel, Mar 12, 2021
- 100 million people now use crypto,
Asia Times, Sep 25, 2020
- Cambridge University’s Third Crypto Study Records 101 Million Cryptocurrency Users Worldwide’, Bitcoin.com, Jamie Redmand, Sep 25, 2020
- 100M people worldwide now use crypto-based assets, says Cambridge Study, Cointelegraph, Felipe Erazo, Sep 24, 2020
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- Cited in “Bitcoin, Blockchain, and the Energy Sector” USA Congressional Research Service Report, August 2019
- Crypto’s Terrible Year Was Actually Pretty Good, Bloomberg, Aaron Brown, Dec 20, 2018
- Cambridge University Study: Speculation of the Death of Bitcoin `Greatly Exaggerated’, Bitcoinist, Emilio Janus, 2018
2018, "Distributed Ledger Technology Systems: A Conceptual Framework", co-authored by Gina Pieters
- Boffins: Confusing distributed ledger tech definitions create ‘unrealistic expectations’ about what it can do, The Register, Rebecca Hill, Aug 14, 2018
- Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance Publishes Document on Distributed Ledger Technology, Seeks to Provide Common Framework for Fast Emerging Blockchain Industry, Crowdfund Insider, JD Alios, Aug 13, 2018