Relevant Scientific Articles and Books
A classic book and a necessary reference to understand the relevance of scaling in natural and human phenomena.
Bitcoin is a network and the power law is a manifestation of its network properties. Very relevant. Barabasi is a major expert in the field and the author of a paper that explain how information spreads as a virus (like Bitcoin) in networks.
A universal power law for modelling the growth and form of teeth, claws, horns, thorns, beaks, and shells
A very important paper that develops a method to model all types of social network growth. It arrives to the conclusion that the real-life network tend to follow a power law growth.
Humans can be described by physics differently from what certain economists say. The same physics which is relevant in understanding Bitcoin. Forget economics and finance, they are inadequate tools, we need Physics.
Universality of Power Laws.
Bitcoin Scientific Articles
The article looks at the local fractal properties of Bitcoin and its overall trend.
"A very surprising result is moreover that, despite the wild ride of the bitcoin price and its multi-fractal and nonstationary character, this price has both local power law behaviors and very orderly correlation structure when it is observed on its entire period of existence".
This is article is the basis of our
Even the holding times of Bitcoiners are power laws.
The importance of bubbles for Bitcoin.
Using the Metcalfe Law to model Bitcoin price and the predictability of bubbles.
This paper confirms our finding that the Metcalfe Law is an important property for Bitcoin.