Research Article

Technological Change and Market Conditions: Evidence from Bitcoin Fork

Table 2

Comparison between the two samples: Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash.

KS statisticJB statistic

Bitcoin
Bitcoin Cash

The Kolmogorov–Smirnov (KS) statistic reports the outcome of a nonparametric equality test, the null hypothesis of which is that two samples are drawn from the same distribution. Meanwhile, the Jarque–Bera (JB) statistic documents the results of a normality test based on a Monte Carlo simulation, whose null hypothesis is that both skewness and excess kurtosis are all zero: the sample follows the normal distribution. denotes significance at the 1% level.