Benefits from Using Bitcoin: Empirical Evidence from a European Country

Rainer Schmidt
Michael Möhring
Daniel Glück
Ralf Haerting
Barbara Keller
Christopher Reichstein
Bitcoin is the most successful approach for establishing a currency outside of state supervision and government institutions. Besides, Bitcoin is very controversial discussed. Therefore, a further investigation of different aspects of the benefit of using Bitcoin should be realized in order to identify some core aspects of the digital currency Bitcoin. In this context, the study described in the following achievements is done. It shows that there exist key aspects, like dissemination as well as safety, which are important impact factors on users' benefit of using a digital currency like Bitcoin. In addition, it also gives implications for a further development of the topic and aspects for future research.

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Year 2016
Peer Reviewed done
Venue International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology (IJSSMET)
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