TY - GEN AU - Llanos Ferraris, Diego Rafael AU - Perote, Javier AU - Vicente-Lorente, José D. PY - 2026 UR - https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/83404 AB - Economists increasingly engage with Bitcoin's macroeconomic and financial implications, yet many debates implicitly assume protocol properties that are rarely stated with mechanical precision. This paper offers a concise technical primer on Bitcoin... LA - eng KW - Informática KW - Bitcoin KW - Blockchain KW - Proof-of-Work KW - Transaction validation KW - Monetary Issuance KW - Digital signatures TI - Bitcoin Protocol Mechanics for Economists: A Compact Reference DO - 10.2139/ssrn.6139467 ER -