1. What is Bitcoin and How is it Mined? 2. A Feature and Not a Bug: Bitcoin Mining's Energy Use Problem 3. Bitcoin's Climate Emissions and Damages 4. Bitcoin's PM2.5 Air Pollution Damages 5. How Does Bitcoin's Climate Footprint Compare to Other Things? 6. Bitcoin Mining's Additional...

We examine the hypothesis that capitalist economies generate inequality by looking at the distribution of wealth in a virtual world. Employing the sandbox video game Minecraft as an example of a “pure” market economy, we chose several Minecraft economy servers and collected their respective...

We analyzed power law (Pareto) distributions of one-minute oil prices through the US Oil Fund (Ticker symbol USO), from January 1 through March 31, 2011. Using the daily power law exponent, α, we determined a critical value which predicted a price trend reversal. This critical value, estimated...