Bibliographic record
Abstract
Drawing on national-level online news sources covering Bitcoin from 2012 until September 23, 2014, this thesis analyzes the ways in which the Canadian government has sought to socially construct Bitcoin, an electronic peer-to-peer value transfer system and currency, within the Canadian legal framework.This thesis analyzes theoretical propositions about alternative currencies made by Geoffrey Ingham, Peter North and Edward Castronova by applying the contributions of these theorists to the present Canadian social context.166 National Post, CBC News and Globe and Mail articles were analyzed using a mixed-methods approach, by means of a Thematic Analysis and Factor Analysis.This study determined that the state has constructed Bitcoin as a de facto currency in Canada for the accumulation of taxes while retaining de jure currency status for the Canadian Dollar.In doing so, the state has allowed Bitcoin to proliferate in Canada as an avenue with which to advance the state's monitoring of Canadian financial activity.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.015 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.011 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.016 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".