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Our paper critiques the recent working paper by Bindseil and Schaff (2024), which presents a negative assessment of Bitcoin’s long-term viability, framing it as a speculative asset with limited intrinsic value and significant risks.

Full article summary: Rudd, M.A., Jones, M., Sechrest, D., Batten, D., Porter, D., 2024. An integrated landfill-gas-to-energy and Bitcoin mining framework. Journal of Cleaner Production. In press.

Full article summary: Rudd, M.A., 2023. Bitcoin is full of surprises. Challenges 14, 27. In this article, I argue that a Pragmatist approach can help reconcile left-leaning progressive values with Bitcoin’s potentially diverse benefits affecting causes important for progressives.

Our findings suggest that Bitcoin mining can help reduce wasted renewable energy, provide financial benefits to renewable energy producers, and lower electricity prices for consumers.

Applying a game theory lens to Bitcoin can help build understanding about the current state of Bitcoin adoption, as well as forward-looking strategies to nudge the direction that the Bitcoin space evolves.

Full article summary: Rudd, M.A., 2024. 40 questions for shaping a policy-salient Bitcoin research agenda, SSRN preprint.

In this post, I run one of my own articles through the AI summarizaton process: Rudd, M.A., et al 2023. Bitcoin and its energy, environmental, and social impacts: an assessment of key research needs in the mining sector. Challenges 14, 47.