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EXPLORING DIGITAL CURRENCIES: Designing a peer-to-peer exchange with use of Blockchain
Malmö högskola, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS).
2015 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year)), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

Digital currencies represent complementary alternatives to fiat money in the conventional mental models of exchange. Blockchain, as the underlying technology of Bitcoin, holds a potential to influence a peer-to-peer exchange in the perspective of trust and ownership. The underlying technologies of digital currencies may be part of concepts, where designers have a possibility to define their own exchange articles for specific needs of the exchange. The ambition of this report is to illustrate the possibilities for the initiation of a peer-to-peer exchange with use of the underlying technologies beyond Bitcoin. The explorative approach provided me material for the retrospective reflection to achieve this ambition. The thesis project consisted three iterations, one experiment, and a literature overview. The main conceptual work illustrates the result of explorative research, where blockchain ensures trust between participating parties. This ecosystem uses the principles of sharing economy for initialisation of exchange within the community. This concept demonstrates potential opportunities for future transactions, in which the exchange article replaces fiat money.

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Malmö högskola/Kultur och samhälle , 2015. , p. 62
Keywords [en]
bitcoin, money, blockchain, exchange, digital currency, sharing economy, digital wallet, digital wallet, mobile payments, community, alternative currency, behavioural economy, digital property
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Engineering and Technology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22275Local ID: 20088OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-22275DiVA, id: diva2:1482200
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KS K3 Interaction Design (master)
Available from: 2020-10-27 Created: 2020-10-27 Last updated: 2022-06-27Bibliographically approved

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