Is Bitcoin a bubble?

Peter Chow-White

Director of the Genomics and Networks Analysis (GeNA) Lab

Dr. Peter Chow-White is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University where he is Director of the Genomics and Networks Analysis (GeNA) Lab and Associate Director of the Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology. He is also an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and a member of the Centre for Clinical Diagnostic Genomics at the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre in Vancouver.

He earned his Ph.D. from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles under the supervision of sociologist and communication scholar Manuel Castells. For over a decade, Dr. Chow-White has been examining and communicating developments in new information technologies such as the Internet, big data, data mining, and social media. His extensive research examines how big data, the Internet, social media, and genomic and biomedical technologies impact organizational and social change.

Abstract

In 2017, Bitcoin and blockchain technologies caught the attention of the public with the meteoric rise of the price of Bitcoin. Financial pundits and institutional investors often referred to Bitcoin as a bubble. Enthusiasts... [ view full abstract ]

Session

KN-2 » Keynote 2 (11:00 - Wednesday, 20th June, Convocation Mall)