Nicola Uras

• PhD Student at University of Cagliari

Predicting the prices of cryptocurrencies is a notoriously challenging task due to high volatility and new mechanisms characterising the crypto markets. In this work, we focus on the two major cryptocurrencies for market capitalisation at the time of the study, Ethereum and Bitcoin, for the period 2017–2020. We present a comprehensive analysis of t...

Coronavirus had a tremendous global economic impact due to mistrust and reduced consumption. Especially in China, the country from which the infection started and which presents more than 90, 000 infections on March 4th, the global economy has been experiencing the first sharp economic contraction since 1970. On February 24th 2020, the Dow Jones In...

Predicting prices of cryptocurrencies is a notoriously hard task due to the presence of high volatility and new mechanisms characterising the crypto markets. In this work we focus on the two major cryptocurrencies for market capitalization at the time of the study, Ethereum and Bitcoin, for the period 2017-2020. We present a comprehensive analysis...

The network of developers in distributed ledgers and blockchains open source projects is essential to maintaining the platform: understanding the structure of their exchanges, analysing their activity and its quality (e.g. issues resolution times, politeness in comments) is important to determine how “healthy” and efficient a project is. The qualit...

In this article we forecast daily closing price series of Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum cryptocurrencies, using data on prices and volumes of prior days. Cryptocurrencies price behaviour is still largely unexplored, presenting new opportunities for researchers and economists to highlight similarities and differences with standard financial prices....

This paper aims to identify and model relationships between cryp-tocurrencies market price changes and topic discussion occurrences on social media. The considered cryptocurrencies are the two highest in value at the moment, Bitcoin and Ethereum. At the same time, topics were realized through a classification of the comments gained from the Reddit...

This paper studies how to forecast daily closing price series of Bitcoin, using data on prices and volumes of prior days. Bitcoin price behaviour is still largely unexplored, presenting new opportunities. We compared our results with two modern works on Bitcoin prices forecasting and with a well-known recent paper that uses Intel, National Bank sha...

The network of developers in distributed ledgers and blockchains open-source projects is essential to maintaining the platform: understanding the structure of their exchanges, analysing their activity and its quality (e.g. issues resolution times, politeness in comments) is important to determine how "healthy" and efficient a project is. The qualit...

We introduce a model of noncommutative geometry that gives rise to the uncertainty relations recently derived from the discussion of a quantum clock. We investigate the dynamics of a free particle in this model from the point of view of doubly special relativity and discuss the geodesic motion in a Schwarzschild background.

We introduce a model of noncommutative geometry that gives rise to the uncertainty relations recently derived from the discussion of a quantum clock. We investigate the dynamics of a free particle in this model from the point of view of doubly special relativity.