Download This PaperBitcoin Mining Pools and Income Smoothing
2 Pages Posted: 8 Nov 2015 Last revised: 30 Apr 2019
Date Written: November 8, 2015
Abstract
This paper analyzes Bitcoin and associated mining pools. Participants may decide to join a mining pool as an income smoothing device. Such participants are risk averse whereas other Bitcoin participants are risk taking.
Keywords: incoming smoothing, earnings management, cryptocurrency, Bitcoin
JEL Classification: J54, G02
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Howard, James, Bitcoin Mining Pools and Income Smoothing (November 8, 2015). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2687702 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2687702
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