Year: 2016
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The Bitcoin ecosystem has grown tremendously in recent years.While the main sectors of growth and venture capital funding have been infrastructure for the Bitcoin ecosystem itself as well as financial services, there is also a more recent evolution in sectors beyond financial services.We classify the venture-capital backed start up ecosystem accordingly and present its evolution over time.Thereby, we identify interesting sectors, i.e. digital assets, marketplaces, and notary services.Each sector is further subdivided, and six representative venture-backed start-up companies are presented in comprehensive case studies.We extract the core innovations and Bitcoin features on which these are based.Finally, we critically discuss their disruptive potential.
Institutions: ETH Zurich, University of St.Gallen
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Universität St. Gallen
OpenAlex ID: W2519292240