Unveiling a Definition of the Blockchain Technology and Plotting the Landscape of the ICO Marketplace Using the Text Mining Approach

Posted: 27 Feb 2019 Last revised: 22 Jul 2019

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Ahmed Gomaa

The University of Scranton

Yibai Li

The University of Scranton

Date Written: February 14, 2019

Abstract

Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies are still generating opposing views ranging from being a fraud to being the source of a new economy. Those differences are stemming from confusion, bias and vested interest. This paper is an attempt to generate an unbiased, unified market definition to fill a literature gap and to provide guidance using a bottom-up approach to enable a better understanding of the cryptocurrency’s potentials using the market own lens.

Keywords: Initial Coin Offering (ICO), Cryptocurrencies, Peer-to-Peer Networks (P2P), Blockchain, Latent Semantic Analyses (LSA)

Suggested Citation

Gomaa, Ahmed and Li, Yibai, Unveiling a Definition of the Blockchain Technology and Plotting the Landscape of the ICO Marketplace Using the Text Mining Approach (February 14, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3340949 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3340949

Ahmed Gomaa (Contact Author)

The University of Scranton ( email )

Scranton, PA 18510
United States
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Yibai Li

The University of Scranton

Scranton, PA 18510
United States

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