Amid its rapidly increasing usage and immense public interest the subject of Bitcoin has raised profound economic and societal issues. In this paper we undertake economic and econometric modelling of Bitcoin prices. As with many asset classes we show that Bitcoin exhibits speculative bubbles....

We explore the taxonomy of cryptocurrencies and integrate our analysis with traditional ways of understanding financial assets. We thus classify cryptocurrencies using the time series and distributional properties of returns. Cryptocurrencies appear inherently speculative in nature. The result...

We explore the taxonomy of cryptocurrencies and integrate our analysis with traditional ways of understanding financial assets. We thus classify cryptocurrencies using the time series and distributional properties of returns. Cryptocurrencies appear inherently speculative in nature. The result...