Bitcoin in accounting, 2017

Bitcoin in accounting, 2017

Background: Nakamoto (2011). Word cloud of Bitcoin: A Peer-to-peer electornic cash system

These slides were used in a presentation in Pierre Liang’s PhD course in Fall 2017 at Carnegie Mellon. The presentation covered:

  1. What is blockchain?
  2. What is it used for?
  3. What sort of data is out there?
  4. How will it impact accounting in the future?

Slides are available in an interactive web-based format (reveal.js) and as a pdf.

revealjs pdf

The presentation also included interactive diagrams of bitcoin transactions. These are rendered in javascript, so they will take a while to load as all of the data is processed. They are available at: