This paper studies existence of structural breaks in the average return and volatility of the Bitcoin price. We utilize a Bayesian change point model to detect structural breaks and to partition the time series into segments. We find that structural breaks in average returns and volatility of...

We study the relationship between Bitcoin and commodities by assessing the ability of Bitcoin to act as a diversifier, hedge, or safe haven against daily movements in commodities in general, and energy commodities in particular. We focus on energy commodities because energy, in the form of...