This paper briefly overviews several challenging dimensions pertaining to cryptocurrencies with respect to their valuation, legitimacy, design, consensual acceptance and market-based stylized facts with a view to understanding whether this new asset class indeed has the potential to become an...

We contribute to financial literature by identifying economic uncertainties salient to the price dynamics of cryptocurrencies. To measure this relationship, we examine the common stochastic trends between cryptocurrencies and major text-based uncertainty indices — categorical and broad —...