Blockchain: Data Malls, Coin Economies and Keyless Payments
General Finance
2018-07-04 v3 Cryptography and Security
Economics
Abstract
We discuss several uses of blockchain (and, more generally, distributed ledger) technologies outside of cryptocurrencies with a pragmatic view. We mostly focus on three areas: the role of coin economies for what we refer to as data malls (specialized data marketplaces); data provenance (a historical record of data and its origins); and what we term keyless payments (made without having to know other users' cryptographic keys). We also discuss voting and other areas, and give a sizable list of academic and nonacademic references.
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@article{arxiv.1802.07422,
title = {Blockchain: Data Malls, Coin Economies and Keyless Payments},
author = {Zura Kakushadze and Ronald P. Russo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.07422},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
32 pages; a few trivial typos corrected; to appear in The Journal of Alternative Investments