Bitcoin and entrepreneurship: breaking the network effect

Malavika Nair1, Nicolás Cachanosky2
1Manuel H. Johnson Center of Political Economy, Troy University, Troy, USA
2Department of Economics, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, USA

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