Questions related to Bitcoin and other Informational Money

TL;DR

This paper presents a comprehensive set of open questions about Bitcoin and similar informational monies, covering technical, security, formal, legal, psychological, ethical, and economic aspects to guide future research.

Contribution

It systematically formulates diverse open questions across multiple domains related to Bitcoin and informational monies, highlighting areas for future investigation.

Findings

Identifies key technical and security issues.

Raises important legal and ethical questions.

Discusses economic prospects of Bitcoin.

Abstract

A collection of questions about Bitcoin and its hypothetical relatives Bitguilder and Bitpenny is formulated. These questions concern technical issues about protocols, security issues, issues about the formalizations of informational monies in various contexts, and issues about forms of use and misuse. Some questions are formulated in the more general setting of informational monies and near-monies. We also formulate questions about legal, psychological, and ethical aspects of informational money. Finally we formulate a number of questions concerning the economical merits of and outlooks for Bitcoin.