"Globally, bitcoin exchange trading volumes are a good measure of the liquidity available to investors," the report reads, adding that bitcoin trading volumes have been growing steadily "reaching roughly $1 billion per day through the first quarter of 2016.”

Accessibility is also very desirable to the authors. In fact, due to the peer-to-peer nature of cryptocurrency, “As more support infrastructure is built around the network,” they found, “bitcoin may become the most secure and accessible asset available to the public.”

Burniske and White appeared impressed with the unique basis of value for bitcoin. “Holding bitcoin represents a publicly verified claim on an open but limited resource that can facilitate transactions of all kinds,” the report states. It also looks for past success for measuring the basis of value, and it found a few consequential examples. “Compared to bitcoin,” the report mentioned, “no asset has evolved from concept to billions of dollars in stored value so quickly. Moreover, no asset in history has followed such a predictable supply trajectory."