Investing in Blockchain
A World Divided: Investors and Gamblers Meet at the Blockchains
Abstract
This chapter covers recent literature and presents new empiric results on owning cryptocurrency and how it relates to gambling problems. Results are based on a longitudinal survey conducted in Finland. First, it conceptually clarifies cryptocurrencies in relation to the history of money, FIAT currencies, assets, and investment instruments. Then, cryptocurrencies are investigated in relation to investing, gambling, and pathological trading. Finally, new empirical results regarding similarities and differences between cryptocurrency owners, cryptocurrency ...
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