Will digital money crowd out national currencies?

• Authors: Cywiński Łukasz

Abstracts

EN

Despite a relatively short period that elapsed since the development of the blockchain or Distributed Ledger technology (DLT), it has been put to multiple uses by multinational corporations, central banks, governments and individuals. It has been responsible for the emergence of digital money and revolutionary changes in a wide array of financial services. The paper examines opportunities and threats associated with the use of the DLT, with a special emphasis on the first experimental digital money, applying a heuristic SWOT analysis. It includes the analysis of properties of the Bitcoin in comparison to traditional money together with detailed examination of protocols that created it in terms of associated dangers.

Keywords

EN

Digital money; Bitcoin; Distributed Ledger Technology; Blockchain technology; SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats); financial services

• Publisher: Bankowy Fundusz Gwarancyjny
• Journal: Bezpieczny Bank
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 4 (69)
• Pages: 147-167

Contributors

author

Cywiński Łukasz

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Identifiers

DOI

10.26354/bb.6.4.69.2017