If you are looking for some good source of material and ideas I can recommend you this publication:
Bitcoin: Questions, Answers, and Analysis of Legal Issues -
https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43339.pdfYou can always answer some questions about Bitcoin's legal and regulatory concerns, including its potential for facilitating money laundering, its treatment under federal securities law, and its status in the
regulation of foreign exchange trading.
Once again, its a Comp. Sc. essay, what you are saying is more of an Economical part.
For those who do not know what Computer science is..... the scientific and practical approach to computation and its applications. That being said, why not go into the inner working of
Bitcoin and the algorithms being used. The most popular question being asked = Can Bitcoin be cracked? You should consider this guy for your research -->
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZloHVKk7DHkGood luck, and I hope you share the results with us.

Thanks, I was interested in "cracking" of bitcoin, but couldn't come up with how exactly I might base my research.