My topic is still focused on Cryptocurrency and its impact on the environment. For this search I focused on the subject terms from the article “Crypto-currencies Trading and Energy Consumption”. The two subject terms used were “cryptocurrency and energy”. I then went to EBSCOhost and used the Academic Search Premier database to search both these terms. Which resulted in 34 results when limited to peer reviewed result. These results were a little two focused on Bitcoin for them to truly be useful however there are some bits and pieces that could be useful as starting points. The article that I started with was “Bitcoin for energy commodities before and after the December 2013 crash”, this was cited 41 times in the database, and had 25 cited references.

One of those references being “The Economics of Bitcoin Price Formation”. This is the article that I used for my backward citation trace, however there was no information on how many times it was cited but its at least once given it’s a source for the original source and it cites 29 sources. This article was useful in giving a general idea about Bitcoin however, it doesn’t go into detain on the energy impact, so it only is useful for a basic understanding of how Bitcoin works.

Going back to the original source I went through the results for articles that cited it and found “Bitcoin—A hype or digital gold? Global evidence.”. This was used as the forward source and cites 29 refences while not being cited by any other items in the database so far. This article is like the others, with its focus is solely on Bitcoin its too focused to be used as a primary source.

Subject Term Source:

Schinckus, C., Nguyen, C. P., & Ling, F. C. (2020). Crypto-currencies trading and energy consumption. International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, 10(3), 355–364. https://doi.org/10.32479/ijeep.9258

First Source:

Bouri, E., Jalkh, N., Molnár, P., & Roubaud, D. (2017). Bitcoin for energy commodities before and after the December 2013 crash: diversifier, hedge or safe haven? Applied Economics, 49(50), 5063–5073. https://doi-org.ezproxy.fhsu.edu/10.1080/00036846.2017.1299102

Forward Source:

Uddin, M. A., Ali, M. H., & Masih, M. (2020). Bitcoin—A hype or digital gold? Global evidence. Australian Economic Papers, 59(3), 215–231. https://doi-org.ezproxy.fhsu.edu/10.1111/1467-8454.12178

Backward Source:

Ciaian, P., Rajcaniova, M., & Kancs, d’Artis. (2016). The economics of BitCoin price formation. Applied Economics, 48(19), 1799–1815. https://doi-org.ezproxy.fhsu.edu/10.1080/00036846.2015.1109038