What drive the successes and adoption of cryptocurrencies?

Since 2008 when Bitcoin was launched, cryptocurrencies (crypto) is increasingly being noticed. Seeing the growth of the crypto-world, different developers have launched their new crypto, possibly motivated by their potential of raising capital or other business opportunities. However, not all crypto can get proliferated. Some cryptos have become valueless gradually after being introduced. To realize the business opportunities brought by launching new cryptos, it is necessary for us to identify the factors that contribute to the success and proliferation of cryptos. In this research-in-progress paper, we presented an ongoing case study based on EOS, a proliferating crypto which has been adopted by different users. We discussed the role and impact of (1) Security, (2) High transaction speed, (3) Low cost and (4) Gamification on how a crypto may be adopted and invested by more users

Home Computer User Security Behavioral Intention: A Replication Study from Guam

This replication study is a methodological replication of Study 1 of Anderson and Agarwal (2010) (A&A) using data collected from Guam to investigate information security (InfoSec) behavioral intention. This study also extended the A&A Model by examining the effect of gender on each construct of the model. Our findings are very similar to those reported by A&A, and indicate that the model is generalizable to the population on Guam. We also observed the effect of gender on several constructs of the model. As this study cannot confirm whether the slight differences between the result of A&A and this study are related to cultural differences, we suggest future replication studies be conducted to examine how culture would affect our security behavior intention. We also suggest practitioners consider gender as an important factor when designing mechanisms to encourage people to practice information security behavior