Questions tagged [cryptocurrency]
Questions involving crypto currencies, crypto coins and tokens traded via the distributed ledger technology (blockchain) and its functioning aspects, as well as the valuation, exchange and issuance of new cryptocurrencies.
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Does emerge of cryptocurrency cause inflation?
I'm very newbie at economics, so the question may does not sound a good question.
I define value, any type of goods and services I can acquire in an economic deal. If I assume whole amount of value ...
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Asset pricing models with CBDCs
What do you think about the adaptation of asset pricing models to CBDCs?
I can read some studies on asset pricing models with cryptocurrencies. But I cannot find anything about the asset pricing model ...
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Why there is no study on the forecasting methods for the exchange rates of CBDCs? What do you think?
What do you think about the predictiion/forecasting the exchange rate of CBDCs?
(CBDC= CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY)
I cannot find any paper on this issue in the literature. But, there are some ...
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What is the benefit of investing in company related cryptos?
I read the Cryptocurrency Investing for Dummies book’s chapter about ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings), which are similar to IPOs but instead of stock, the company issues its own themed crypto to ...
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Cryptocurrency perpetual futures shorting mechanism
I am trying to understand shorts in a perpetual futures market. Let's consider a market of ETH/USDC, trading at 1000 USDC. When user A shorts 1 perp (assuming no leverage) they pay 1000 USDC, the ...
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How initial price of a token is determined on a centralized exchange?
Hypothetically, If I create tokens, I can create liquidity pool in one of the DEXes by adding, for instance, 1000 tokens and 1000 USDT. So the initial price of one token in this DEX will be 1 USDT. ...
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Is the viability of a limited supply currency dependent on the equality or inequality of its distribution among potential users?
Presumably, the more unequal the distribution of a limited supply currency among potential users, the more advantage early accumulators have vs latecomers; as soon as the early accumulators begin to ...
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What is the market capitalisation of the crypto exchange Binance?
Cryptocurrency exchange FTX has raised USD 400 million in a Series C fundraise, helping bump up the company's valuation to $32 billion (1 Feb 2022). What is Binance company valuation? Not BNB market ...
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Best way to fix the assumptions in linear regression with cryptocurrency data?
Hi I'm doing my undergraduate thesis, I want to predict closing price of Bitcoin using linear regression model, So i check the assumption using R then It is all not satisfied, so I want to fix It but ...
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Which are the likely reasons of the crypto crash?
There's a big crypto crash happening lately, which basically affects almost every crypto currency.
Which are the likely reasons something like this could be happening?
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If someone from another country mines and sells cryptocurrency to an American for US Dollars what happens to the US money supply?
I would imagine this would act like a trade deficit and the money supply would go down. If I'm correct there, how does the Fed track these random depletions from the money supply? If they are ...
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Why does the entire cryptocurrency market go down when BTC goes down?
While reading about what was happening in Kazakhstan, I came across this Reuters article. Basically, the bitcoin hashrate dropped after Kazakhstan cut internet after the deadly protests. The country ...
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Determining a better model for a new currency
I am in no way an economist (Just a computer programmer) and want to learn if we can use the gold standard (With improvements for using it in the Crypto domain)
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If we have a physical ...
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Can we replace the central bank with a well-programmed cryptocurrency?
Imagine an economy that everyone uses (a single) cryptocurrency as a mean of payment. You could program a cryptocurrency such that the money supply grows at a fixed amount per year, etc. but that ...
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Is the value of crypo currencies determined against the US dollar?
For example, for a european investor is EUR/Bitcoin implied directly from of USD/Bitcoin or are traded as 2 different markets?
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How does Distributed Ledger Technology-based Central Bank Digital Currency provide efficiency gains and serve as a contingency payment medium?
From reading Lannquist,2020, p.7, they said
DLT-based CBDC "could offer diversification in payment “rails”, providing efficiency gains or serving as a contingency payment medium."
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How is trending coins or stocks calculated? What is the formula or metric used to define "top 10 trending coins or stocks today"?
We can see the top 10 trending coins today in Coinmarketcap, Coingecko, etc. The same goes for stocks. So, how is it calculated? They're obviously taking multiple factors into consideration - total ...
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Why are cryptos recognized as a "currency"?
My question is pretty straightforward:
Why a "payment" with cryptos is recognized as a "payment" (at least in the US) and thus you need to pay taxes over it?
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How are the rates between two currencies (fiat and cryptocurrecies) determined? [duplicate]
How are the exchange rate between two countries determined? For example how is exchange rate between the dollar and the euro established?
My guess is it has to do with some form of demand/supply but I ...
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Do 'liquidity pools' effectively determine market price?
First, lets be clear - I'm not pitching a crypto here, and I'm not seriously interested in Safemoon, which seems to be a pyramid scheme.
However, I was investigated Safemoon, and discovered this ...
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Does it make sense to talk about Bitcoin 'inflation' when little to no goods and services are listed in Bitcoin currency?
I think of inflation as a generalized increase in the price levels of a basket of goods and services.
I should add that my understanding presumes that inflation should be measured in the same currency ...
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How does the size of the largest cryptocurrency compare to the largest traditional currency?
'Money' has evolved throughout economic history, and has included moving from:
barter economies (i.e. no 'Money' - simple trading of final goods/services)
commodity money - money whose intrinsic ...
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Why is deflation bad for economy? [duplicate]
As now many people are talking about the inflation of US dollar on the account of the COVID-19 pandemic and the printing of trillions of US dollar bills, the price of decentralized cryptocurrencies ...
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Cryptocurrencies: Is it possible to estimate price from market cap?
I'm looking at a website that figures out the potential price of a coin if it had a certain market cap.
I'm not sure I understand the underlying calculations though.
It's well established that: ...
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Do leverage pools force net negative outcomes? How are leveraged futures profits payed?
Pre-note: Although I am trying to make this question general, in the case that there are any ambiguities, I would like to direct this question toward cryptocurrency futures trading platforms that ...
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If Bitcoin becomes a globally accepted store of value, would it be liable to the same problems that mired the gold standard?
I am reading this article here that explains why bitcoin is a better store of value than gold.
In sum, here are some of the reasons proposed:
If someday a "bitcoin standard" does come to ...
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Is it possible to peg a cryptocurrency to a stock or bond index?
What if the creators of a new cryptocurrency gave out new units of the cryptocurrency in exchange for shares of a stock or bond index fund, held these shares in reserves, and allowed owners of the ...
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How can a currency be tied to a commodity like energy?
To make a stable (crypto)currency it basically needs to be tied to a thing of value that can not be just flooded onto the market with minimal effort. I think energy is the ideal thing to tie a ...
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Why would a CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) be good for the economy?
I've read about CBDC, how it could be a cryptocurrency like digital payment system, that could replace fiat currencies. But what I don't get is what value would it give to the economy?
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Stable coin values
(not sure this is the right stack exchange to ask crypto-economics questions, if not please direct :) )
Why are stable coin values not exactly the value they're pegged against?
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If a fluctuating cryptocurrency becomes the new world coin, would it stop fluctuating?
An often mentioned criterium for money is that it should be a unit of account. It could be argued that cryptocurrencies don't satisfy this requirement.
The argument is that businesses like bakers ...
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Can we stabilise the price of a cryptocurrency?
Currently, the volatile price of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin means that they are currently poor stores of value and therefore are unlikely to achieve mass adoption. What can be done to stabilise ...
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Why is there a need for multiple cryptocurrencies?
Why can't all blockchains use the same cryptocurrency like Bitcoin? Why do each of them have to invent a new cryptocurrency?
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Whats the math behind calculating the price of cryptocurrency through supply and demand?
"The value of currencies (including most popular cryptocurrencies) is set by a market. Price rises or falls until the supply and demand of the currency are equalized"
Why exchange rates of national ...
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Why exchange rates of national currency are usually stable, where as cryptocurrency like bitcoin and ethereum is highly volatile?
Exchange rate of national currency like US dollar or INR don't fluctuate much during a month or year, but the exchange rate of cryptocurrency like bitcoin is highly volatile even in a single day. What ...
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Facebook's Libra - Why would it vary in value
Facebook has come up Libra its version of crypto-currency.
The unique feature of Libra is the "reserve" which backs Libra. The reserve is supposed to be held in stable global currencies (USD, GBP, ...
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bonding curves and the market
This question is related to economics on the blockchain. Bonding curves are becoming popular; however, it is a bit concerning that the price on an asset is predetermined by a mathematical function. ...
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Effect of a Deflationary Cryptocurrency
Wikipedia lists Deflation as a bad thing, but I'm assuming that the article makes the assumption that the currency is a fiat currency (as opposed to cryptocurrency). I understand the general principle ...
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Why doesn't the central bank extend loans directly?
I've been thinking about the credit theory of money lately and how it creates money. Since Banks look for sufficient reserves after extending a loan, and since the central bank always loans out money ...
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What determines a new cryptocurrency's initial value?
I understand that a cryptocurrency has no intrinisc value, and that therefore its value is determined strictly by market forces, i.e. supply and demand.
I "get" (more or less) that this is how it ...
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Can we get rid of banknotes and coins?
this is more a theoretical question, nowadays with Internet, Debit/Credit cards and Cryptocurrencies, why should we keep printing/making more physical money?
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How does the dollar value of all bitcoin compare with the total cost of the electricity required to generate it?
The world's Bitcoin mining in the aggregate uses surprisingly large amounts of electricity. Princeton computer scientist Arvind Narayanan estimates that Bitcoin mining now uses about five gigawatts ...
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Venezuela Petro Cryptocurrency
As I understand it, a primary feature / requirement of cryptocurrency is that it is not controlled by a government actor: it is decentralized. If this is true and the Petro is controlled by a ...
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Devaluation of Venezuelan Bolívar - Will it increase or fight hyperinflation?
According to recent news, Venezuela is lopping 5 zeros out of its regular Bolívar, and devaluing it, and pegging it to a cryptocurrence issued by Venezuela, to fight the economic situation (...
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Why do large financial institutions make international transactions in digital currency?
I've heard that blockchain technology has been used extensively by financial institutions when making international transactions to eachother, with speed and transparency and cryptographic security ...
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Is any aspect of the cryptocurrency adoption violating a widely held economic tenet?
This is not a homework question. I am merely interested.
As an academic discipline, Economics refers to various laws and widely held beliefs including, but not exclusive to;
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What is a suitable exponential to model a currency or cryptocurrency price increase?
I would like to model a supply and demand cryptocurrency market, not necessarily for Bitcoin, but for any coin.
My difficulty is that I don't know what exponential factor might be realistic to do so.
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How can a crypto currency crash affect liquidity?
To the best of my knowledge, no bank will allow a borrower to provide crypto as collateral for a loan. So, if the price of crypto crashes to zero, there shouldn't be any liquidity issues because no ...
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Are cryptocurrencies a ponzi scheme or a bubble?
Several users in this forum have addressed bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as ponzi schemes. Bitcoins have several uses which could legitimate its value as a currency, but also have received ...
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Crypto-tokens: how do they function in a latter stage of company?
I am newbie to cryptocurrencies and just read an article about ICO (Initial Coin Offerings). However, I didn’t quite get the functioning and role of tokens. Lets say there is a company that plans to ...
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