Bitcoin mining: converting computing power into cash flow

Yuen C Lo and Francesca Medda

Applied Economics Letters, 2019, vol. 26, issue 14, 1171-1176

Abstract: Bitcoin is the world’s leading cryptocurrency, with a market capitalization briefly exceeding $300 billion. This hints at Bitcoin’s amorphous nature: Is this a monetary or a corporate measure? Hard values become explicit in the processing of transactions and the digital mining of Bitcoins. Electricity is a primary input cost. Bitcoins earned are often used to circumvent local currency controls and acquire US dollars. For the period August 2010 to February 2018, we examine the financial components of Bitcoin mining revenues, their statistical contribution to daily changes, and to its variance. We provide empirical evidence that Bitcoin transaction processing is capacity constrained.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2018.1540841

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