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  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
19,657 Views
16 Pages

Cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin and Ethereum, have garnered global attention in recent years as digital alternatives to traditional fiat currencies. This paper explores the complex landscape of cryptocurrency adoption, consumer behavior, and perceptio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,439 Views
28 Pages

26 March 2025

In recent years, the rapid growth of cryptocurrency markets has highlighted the urgent need for advanced security solutions capable of addressing a spectrum of unique threats, from phishing and wallet hacks to complex blockchain vulnerabilities. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,373 Views
16 Pages

Are conventional and sustainable cryptocurrencies effective hedging instruments for high cryptocurrency uncertainty? This paper examines co-movements between conventional (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Binance Coin, Tether) and sustainable (Cardano, Powerledger...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
27,971 Views
17 Pages

Cryptocurrency as an Investment: The Malaysian Context

  • Shangeetha Sukumaran,
  • Thai Siew Bee and
  • Shaista Wasiuzzaman

14 April 2022

Cryptocurrency is gaining popularity worldwide, with some countries already starting to regulate and accept cryptocurrency in their financial services. Malaysia’s Securities Commission (SC) announced in October 2021 that over MYR 16 billion (US...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,349 Views
15 Pages

Bitcoin Halving: How Effective Is It in Driving Cryptocurrency Market Dynamics?

  • Nyoman Sri Subawa,
  • Caren Angellina Mimaki,
  • I Made Oka Mahendra and
  • Made Srinitha Millinia Utami

Bitcoin halving is a quadrennial event that halves mining rewards and is believed to influence cryptocurrency prices and cryptocurrency market dynamics. This study examines the effect of Bitcoin halving on Cryptocurrency Prices, with Government Regul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,803 Views
27 Pages

4 July 2022

This paper tests the random walk hypothesis in the cryptocurrency market. Based on the well-known Meese–Rogoff puzzle, we evaluate whether cryptocurrency returns are predictable or not. For this purpose, we conduct in-sample and out-of-sample a...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
40 Citations
8,811 Views
8 Pages

Contagion Effect in Cryptocurrency Market

  • Paulo Ferreira and
  • Éder Pereira

The rapid development of cryptocurrencies has drawn attention to this particular market, with investors trying to understand its behaviour and researchers trying to explain it. The evolution of cryptocurrencies’ prices showed a kind of bubble a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
18,928 Views
20 Pages

This study examines the impact of market volatility and cryptocurrency holdings on corporate liquidity, with a particular focus on the differences between cryptocurrency exchanges and other businesses. The analysis is based on 181 firm-year observati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
34,781 Views
14 Pages

Cryptocurrencies have gained a lot of attraction across the globe. Most observers of the cryptocurrency market will agree that crypto volatility is in a different league altogether. There has been a growing need to understand the nature of volatility...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,313 Views
18 Pages

Cryptocurrency Trading and Downside Risk

  • Farhat Iqbal,
  • Mamoona Zahid and
  • Dimitrios Koutmos

6 July 2023

Since the debut of cryptocurrencies, particularly Bitcoin, in 2009, cryptocurrency trading has grown in popularity among investors. Relative to other conventional asset classes, cryptocurrencies exhibit high volatility and, consequently, downside ris...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,060 Views
21 Pages

Do Global Uncertainty Factors Matter More to Cryptocurrency?

  • Minxing Wang,
  • Rishabh Verma,
  • Jinghua Wang,
  • Geoffrey Ngene and
  • Cheickna Sylla

This study examines the intricate relationships between cryptocurrency and various uncertainties related to economic policy and global risk factors. It explores the interactions between cryptocurrency and global risk factors, comparing these with the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,246 Views
12 Pages

The purpose of this study is to analyze the contents of cryptocurrency value design based on adaptability to the current market. It is also intended to provide a method of issuing cryptocurrency before its creation, and an operation method afterwards...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,338 Views
13 Pages

Cryptocurrency Open Innovation Payment System: Comparative Analysis of Existing Cryptocurrencies

  • Valery Titov,
  • Mafura Uandykova,
  • Oleg Litvishko,
  • Tatyana Kalmykova,
  • Sergey Prosekov and
  • Tomonobu Senjyu

This study was conducted to evaluate the implementation of an open innovation cryptocurrency financial system using a statistical approach. The data array reflects the actual speed of the cryptocurrency system, expressed in transactions per second (T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
10,652 Views
35 Pages

Cryptocurrency Market Consolidation in 2020–2021

  • Jarosław Kwapień,
  • Marcin Wątorek and
  • Stanisław Drożdż

13 December 2021

Time series of price returns for 80 of the most liquid cryptocurrencies listed on Binance are investigated for the presence of detrended cross-correlations. A spectral analysis of the detrended correlation matrix and a topological analysis of the min...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,933 Views
17 Pages

Uncertainty and Risk in the Cryptocurrency Market

  • Dora Almeida,
  • Andreia Dionísio,
  • Isabel Vieira and
  • Paulo Ferreira

Cryptocurrency investments are often perceived as uncertain and risky. In this study, we assessed if this is indeed the case, using a sample of seven cryptocurrencies and considered a period that encompassed the first real global shock in the life of...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,306 Views
23 Pages

What Is Mature and What Is Still Emerging in the Cryptocurrency Market?

  • Stanisław Drożdż,
  • Jarosław Kwapień and
  • Marcin Wątorek

9 May 2023

In relation to the traditional financial markets, the cryptocurrency market is a recent invention and the trading dynamics of all its components are readily recorded and stored. This fact opens up a unique opportunity to follow the multidimensional t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
41,015 Views
15 Pages

Cryptocurrency Risks, Fraud Cases, and Financial Performance

  • David S. Kerr,
  • Karen A. Loveland,
  • Katherine Taken Smith and
  • Lawrence Murphy Smith

23 February 2023

In this study, we examine major cryptocurrencies, present notable fraud cases, describe fraud risks, and analyze cryptocurrency financial performance. People debate whether cryptocurrency is an investment opportunity, the new Dutch Tulip Bubble, or a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
9,124 Views
16 Pages

A Cryptocurrency Spectrum Short Analysis

  • Mircea Constantin Șcheau,
  • Simona Liliana Crăciunescu,
  • Iulia Brici and
  • Monica Violeta Achim

Technological development brings about economic changes that affect most citizens, both in developed and undeveloped countries. The implementation of blockchain technologies that bring cryptocurrencies into the economy and everyday life also induce r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,825 Views
23 Pages

This paper presents the first rigorous empirical investigation into a fundamental question of cryptocurrency valuation: Are cryptocurrency prices in line with the prices of fundamental assets? To answer this, we analyze the nine largest cryptocurrenc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,987 Views
18 Pages

In this study, we investigate the existence of chaos in the global cryptocurrency market. Specifically, we analyze parameters of chaotic order, nonlinearity, sensitivity to the initial conditions, monofractality, and multifractality. For this purpose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
23,417 Views
26 Pages

Applying Artificial Intelligence in Cryptocurrency Markets: A Survey

  • Rasoul Amirzadeh,
  • Asef Nazari and
  • Dhananjay Thiruvady

14 November 2022

The total capital in cryptocurrency markets is around two trillion dollars in 2022, which is almost the same as Apple’s market capitalisation at the same time. Increasingly, cryptocurrencies have become established in financial markets with an...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,902 Views
7 Pages

We examine the presence of outliers and time-varying jumps in the returns of four major cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Dogecoin, Litecoin), and a broad cryptocurrency index (CCI30). The results indicate that only Bitcoin returns are con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,033 Views
15 Pages

This paper aims to enrich the understanding and modelling strategies for cryptocurrency markets by investigating major cryptocurrencies’ returns determinants and forecast their returns. To handle model uncertainty when modelling cryptocurrencie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
16,918 Views
17 Pages

LLMs and NLP Models in Cryptocurrency Sentiment Analysis: A Comparative Classification Study

  • Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis,
  • Nikolaos D. Tselikas and
  • Dimitrios K. Nasiopoulos

Cryptocurrencies are becoming increasingly prominent in financial investments, with more investors diversifying their portfolios and individuals drawn to their ease of use and decentralized financial opportunities. However, this accessibility also br...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,269 Views
8 Pages

Finance, in particular, is tightly correlated with information-technology development. Digital currency or cryptocurrency is the outcome of the advancement of financial technology. As a means of payment over the internet, digital currencies are begin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
23,602 Views
19 Pages

The paper focuses on the analysis of the cryptocurrency open innovation market to predict sustainable growth in the future. The nature of cryptocurrencies ‘development leads to the rapid increase in their popularity and spread of trading at thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,282 Views
14 Pages

Is There Any Witching in the Cryptocurrency Market?

  • Alex Plastun,
  • Ludmila Khomutenko and
  • Serhii Bashlai

This paper explores price effects caused by the expiration of derivatives in the cryptocurrency market. Applying different statistical tests (ANOVA, Mann–Whitney, and t-tests) and econometric methods (the modified cumulative abnormal return approach,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,640 Views
18 Pages

This study investigates whether cryptocurrency investments have a distinct impact on corporate liquidity depending on when they are held and the stage of a firm’s life cycle at the time of holding, using a sample of Korean companies. The empiri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,846 Views
21 Pages

Cryptocurrency Portfolio Selection—A Multicriteria Approach

  • Zdravka Aljinović,
  • Branka Marasović and
  • Tea Šestanović

16 July 2021

This paper proposes the PROMETHEE II based multicriteria approach for cryptocurrency portfolio selection. Such an approach allows considering a number of variables important for cryptocurrencies rather than limiting them to the commonly employed retu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
36,098 Views
15 Pages

A Security Analysis of Cryptocurrency Wallets against Password Brute-Force Attacks

  • Hyeonsu Byun,
  • Jueun Kim,
  • Yunseok Jeong,
  • Byoungjin Seok,
  • Seonghyeon Gong and
  • Changhoon Lee

Currently, the monetary value of cryptocurrencies is extremely high, leading to frequent theft attempts. Cyberattacks targeting cryptocurrency wallets and the scale of these attacks are also increasing annually. However, many studies focus on large-s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
9,347 Views
28 Pages

The cryptocurrency market offers significant investment opportunities but also entails higher risks as compared to other asset classes. This article aims to analyse the financial risk characteristics of individual cryptocurrencies and of a broad cryp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,319 Views
22 Pages

Interplay between Cryptocurrency Transactions and Online Financial Forums

  • Ana Fernández Vilas,
  • Rebeca P. Díaz Redondo,
  • Daniel Couto Cancela and
  • Alejandro Torrado Pazos

20 February 2021

Cryptocurrencies are a type of digital money meant to provide security and anonymity while using cryptography techniques. Although cryptocurrencies represent a breakthrough and provide some important benefits, their usage poses some risks that are a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
352 Views
25 Pages

2 February 2026

Cryptocurrencies play a central role in modern financial markets; however, geopolitical tensions and environmental concerns raise critical questions about their stability and informational efficiency. This study distinguishes between green cryptocurr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,948 Views
14 Pages

Phishing Attacks on Cryptocurrency Investors in the Arab States of the Gulf

  • Marwa Alyami,
  • Reem Alhotaylah,
  • Sawsan Alshehri and
  • Abdullah Alghamdi

With the rapid development of technology in all fields, including the financial field, people have flocked to invest in cryptocurrencies, sometimes without prior knowledge or experience. This has prompted hackers to prey on inexperienced investors th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,692 Views
19 Pages

Leveraging Explainable AI to Support Cryptocurrency Investors

  • Jacopo Fior,
  • Luca Cagliero and
  • Paolo Garza

24 August 2022

In the last decade, cryptocurrency trading has attracted the attention of private and professional traders and investors. To forecast the financial markets, algorithmic trading systems based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) models are becoming more an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
79 Citations
27,876 Views
22 Pages

Cryptocurrency Mining from an Economic and Environmental Perspective. Analysis of the Most and Least Sustainable Countries

  • Sergio Luis Náñez Alonso,
  • Javier Jorge-Vázquez,
  • Miguel Ángel Echarte Fernández and
  • Ricardo Francisco Reier Forradellas

14 July 2021

There are different studies that point out that the price of electricity is a fundamental factor that will influence the mining decision, due to the cost it represents. There is also an ongoing debate about the pollution generated by cryptocurrency m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
81 Citations
24,295 Views
15 Pages

Big-Crypto: Big Data, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency

  • Hossein Hassani,
  • Xu Huang and
  • Emmanuel Silva

Cryptocurrency has been a trending topic over the past decade, pooling tremendous technological power and attracting investments valued over trillions of dollars on a global scale. The cryptocurrency technology and its network have been endowed with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
8,113 Views
21 Pages

The Effects of Cryptocurrency Trading Websites on Airlines’ Advertisement Campaigns

  • Damianos P. Sakas,
  • Nikolaos T. Giannakopoulos,
  • Dimitrios P. Reklitis and
  • Thomas K. Dasaklis

In future years, airline companies will be leaning more and more towards cryptocurrencies to implement their digital marketing strategies as leaders seek to gain an understanding of the factors affecting airlines’ visibility parameters. Cryptocurrenc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
11,916 Views
19 Pages

Examining the Drivers and Economic and Social Impacts of Cryptocurrency Adoption

  • Yongsheng Guo,
  • Ezaddin Yousef and
  • Mirza Muhammad Naseer

25 January 2025

This study investigates the key drivers and the economic and social impacts of cryptocurrency adoption. Based on panel data across 37 countries from 2020 to 2023, this research examines the interplay between cryptocurrency adoption and technology dev...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,616 Views
28 Pages

The Cryptocurrency Market in Transition before and after COVID-19: An Opportunity for Investors?

  • An Pham Ngoc Nguyen,
  • Tai Tan Mai,
  • Marija Bezbradica and
  • Martin Crane

19 September 2022

We analyze the correlation between different assets in the cryptocurrency market throughout different phases, specifically bearish and bullish periods. Taking advantage of a fine-grained dataset comprising 34 historical cryptocurrency price time seri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
9,765 Views
10 Pages

Social and Psychological Predictors of Youths’ Attitudes to Cryptocurrency

  • Maria Gagarina,
  • Timofey Nestik and
  • Tatiana Drobysheva

20 November 2019

The objectives of the study were to verify the “Attitudes Toward Cryptocurrencies Questionnaire” and to identify predictors of attitudes toward Bitcoin. Sample: 262 participants aged 17 to 30, of which 45% were male. Methods: Associations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
13,640 Views
22 Pages

Unveiling the Influencing Factors of Cryptocurrency Return Volatility

  • Andromahi Kufo,
  • Ardit Gjeci and
  • Artemisa Pilkati

The blossoming of cryptocurrencies during the last decade has largely influenced both the financial and the technological world. Bitcoin emerged on the edge of the financial crisis in 2008, signaling the very beginning of a financial and technologica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,868 Views
18 Pages

28 April 2022

The energy consumption and carbon footprint of cryptocurrencies have always been a popular topic. However, most of the existing studies only focus on one cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, and there is a lack of long-term monitoring studies that summarize all...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
9,516 Views
14 Pages

9 April 2020

Cryptocurrencies have recently captured the interest of the econometric literature, with several works trying to address the existence of bubbles in the price dynamics of Bitcoins and other cryptoassets. Extremely rapid price accelerations, often ref...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,711 Views
13 Pages

Profiling Turkish Cryptocurrency Owners: Payment Users, Crypto Investors and Crypto Traders

  • Lennart Ante,
  • Florian Fiedler,
  • Fred Steinmetz and
  • Ingo Fiedler

With ownership estimates of up to 25%, Turkey is at the forefront of cryptocurrency adoption, rendering it an interesting example to study the proclaimed use cases of cryptocurrencies. Using exploratory factor analysis based on a sample of 715 Turkis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
17,715 Views
22 Pages

This paper examines cryptocurrency shock transmission to financial markets and the macroeconomy using a Bayesian structural VAR with Pandemic Priors from 2015 to 2024. By affecting overall risk appetite, cryptocurrency price shocks generate positive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,549 Views
15 Pages

In recent times, there has been a swift advancement in the field of cryptocurrency. The advent of cryptocurrency has provided us with convenience and prosperity, but has also given rise to certain illicit and unlawful activities. Unlike classical cur...

  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
10,605 Views
24 Pages

15 April 2022

The large-scale application of blockchain technology is an expected to be an inevitable trend. This study revolves around published papers and articles related to blockchain technology, relevance analysis and sorting through the retrieved documents w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,982 Views
18 Pages

The adoption of cryptocurrency as a payment instrument by firms has sparked ongoing debates about how such strategic moves are perceived by key stakeholders. This study investigates how investors react when an e-commerce firm adds or withdraws from p...

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