Decentralized digital assets, currencies, and tokens have garnered attention from academics and practitioners in nearly every scholarly discipline. Cryptocurrencies, and related areas of interest, have wide-ranging business, economic, environmental, legal, political, and regulatory implications. The Cryptocurrency Special Topic Hub presents interdisciplinary scholarship covering all aspects of cryptocurrencies, from the technical platforms, solutions, and tools used, to user identity, authentication, and the encryption empowering it, to the regulatory policies it influences.
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