Writing/Opinion
Original essays and summaries of my own research working papers, article, and opinion pieces.
For full information on my academic writing, see my Google Scholar page.
Content
Bitcoin Mining Pools, Node Debates, and Governance Risks
Explore risks from mining pool power, node relay policies, and institutional entry shaping Bitcoin’s decentralization future.
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Bitcoin Worlds preprint
Distilling key Bitcoin investment, policy & research insights
Murray Rudd
Draft Bitcoin horizon scan book
Leveraging a modified, AI-assisted horizon scanning approach and analysis of 1,900 hours of 2024 Bitcoin-focused podcasts distilled with LLMs, it converts thousands of raw “threats and opportunities” into a preliminary research agenda.
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2024 Bitcoin research horizon scan
I used an AI-assisted ‘key questions’ approach to: (1) analyze transcriptions from 1,818 Bitcoin podcast episodes from 2024; (2) identify Bitcoin-oriented threats and opportunities; and (3) create and refine a list of 100 policy-salient Bitcoin research questions.
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What if US states had invested in Bitcoin in 2018?
Distilling key Bitcoin investment, policy & research insights
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Rigorously Testing Bitcoin’s Power Law Myth
In this post, I offer an opinion & deep dive into Bitcoin’s “power law” claims, rigorously examining whether the extreme price movements observed in Bitcoin’s history truly follow a heavy-tailed distribution.
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Strategic portfolio allocations for financial resilience: a counter-factual analysis of Bitcoin and gold in US state Rainy Day Funds
Distilling key Bitcoin investment, policy & research insights
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Challenging ECB’s Bitcoin Critique: a Critical Rebuttal
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.
Bitcoin Mining and Methane Mitigation: Economic Model
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.
Bitcoin is full of surprises
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.
Economic integration of Bitcoin mining in renewable energy and grid management
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.
The Bitcoin Games
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.
40 questions for shaping a policy-salient Bitcoin research agenda
Full article summary: Rudd, M.A., 2024. 40 questions for shaping a policy-salient Bitcoin research agenda, SSRN preprint.
Bitcoin and its energy, environmental, and social impacts: an assessment of key research needs in the mining sector
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.
