• DOI:10.1016/J.JMONECO.2017.12.004
Corpus ID: 26358036

Price Manipulation in the Bitcoin Ecosystem

@article{Gandal2017PriceMI,
  title={Price Manipulation in the Bitcoin Ecosystem},
  author={Neil Gandal and J. Hamrick and T. Moore and Tali Oberman},
  journal={CEPR: Industrial Organization (Topic)},
  year={2017}
}

• Neil Gandal, J. Hamrick, +1 author Tali Oberman
• Published 2017
• Economics
• CEPR: Industrial Organization (Topic)

To its proponents, the cryptocurrency Bitcoin offers the potential to disrupt payment systems and traditional currencies. It has also been subject to security breaches and wild price fluctuations. This paper identifies and analyzes the impact of suspicious trading activity on the Mt. Gox Bitcoin currency exchange, in which approximately 600,000 bitcoins (BTC) valued at $188 million were fraudulently acquired. During both periods, the USD-BTC exchange rate rose by an average of four percent on… Expand