Boom, Bust, and Bitcoin: Bitcoin-Bubbles as Innovation Accelerators

【Author】 Huber, Tobias A.; Sornette, Didier

【Source】JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ISSUES

【影响因子】0.854

【Abstract】Bitcoin represents one of the most interesting technological breakthroughs and socio-economic experiments of the last decades. In this paper, we examine the role of speculative bubbles in the process of Bitcoin's technological adoption by analyzing its social dynamics. We trace Bitcoin's genesis and dissect the nature of its techno-economic innovation. In particular, we present an analysis of the techno-economic feedback loops that drive Bitcoin's price and network effects. Based on our analysis of Bitcoin, we test and further refine the Social Bubble Hypothesis, which holds that bubbles constitute an essential component in the process of technological innovation. We argue that a hierarchy of repeating and exponentially increasing series of bubbles and hype cycles, which has occurred over the past decade since its inception, has bootstrapped Bitcoin into existence.

【Keywords】bitcoin; money; cryptocurrencies; financial bubbles; technological innovation; economic growth; reflexivity

【发表时间】2022 JAN 2

【收录时间】2022-04-23

【文献类型】期刊

【主题类别】

区块链治理-市场治理-