Bitcoin Seminar - Stockholm

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Bitcoin: Challenging the fiat money system or catalyzing economic development? October 25, 2013 Stockholm School of Economics

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My slides from the Bitcoin seminar at the Stockholm School of Economics in October 2013.

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Bitcoin: Challenging the

fiat money

system or

catalyzing

economic

development?

October 25, 2013

Stockholm School of Economics

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14.30-14.45 Welcome and Introduction to Bitcoin

Dr. Robin Teigland Associate Professor, SSE

14.45-15.15 The Appeal of a Nonpolitical Monetary Unit

Jon Matonis,

Executive Director & Board Member, Bitcoin Foundation

15.15-15.45 Case Study: Kipochi and Implications of Bitcoin for Developing Countries

Pelle Braendgaard Founder, Kipochi

15.50-16.20 Future of and Alternative to Bitcoin

Michael Grönager Chief Operating Officer, Payward Inc.

16.20-16.30 Concluding Remarks

Moderator: Dr. Robin Teigland

Program

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Finance + ICT

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Exploring Collective Emergent Institutional Entrepreneurship through Bitcoin

• Open source project posted on SourceForge in Jan 2009

• By “Satoshi Nakamoto” – but who is Satoshi?• Developed by community of strangers across globe• Legitimate currency with >USD 2 bln in circulation <5 short years:

Challenging the fiat money system?

Our Research

Teigland, Yetis, Larsson 2013 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2263707

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Institutions

Emergent Collective vs

E.g., Central Bank~ Long-standing financial

institutions and regulations

E.g., Bitcoin Community ~ Emergent collective of users across globe connected through internet

Teigland, Yetis, Larsson 2013

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Nov 2009 to Jan 2013

Bitcoin Online Forums

Social network analysis & Semantic network analysis• Bitcoin Forum (English)

• 1.15 mln posts by 21,903 people• 85% all posts / 89% all people

• Secondary data• SNS, blogs, websites, etc.

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rmal org

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10 Most Active in Forum

5 Bitcoin entrepreneurs5 anonymous

Forum Topics over Time

TechnicalExchanges

Legal

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14.30-14.45 Welcome and Introduction to Bitcoin

Dr. Robin Teigland Associate Professor, SSE

14.45-15.15 The Appeal of a Nonpolitical Monetary Unit

Jon Matonis,

Executive Director &Board Member, Bitcoin Foundation

15.15-15.45 Case Study: Kipochi and Implications of Bitcoin for Developing Countries

Pelle Braendgaard Founder, Kipochi

15.50-16.20 Future of and Alternative to Bitcoin

Michael Grönager Chief Operating Officer, Payward Inc.

16.20-16.30 Concluding Remarks

Moderator: Dr. Robin Teigland

Program