A key challenge for Bitcoin cryptocurrency holders, such as startups using ICOs to raise funding, is managing their FX risk. Specifically, a misinformed decision to convert Bitcoin to fiat currency could, by itself, cost USD millions. In contrast to financial exchanges, blockchain based...

Blockchain offers the opportunity to use the transaction graph for financial governance, yet properties of this graph are understudied. One key question in this direction is the extent to which the transaction graph can serve as an early-warning indicator for large financial losses. In this...

In a recent securities law case, the statistical methods used by the regulator in analysing data on daily commissions and hypothetical profits from initial public offerings (IPOs) assumed that the data on consecutive days were independent. Consecutive observations in most business and economic...