Unpacking Blockchains
Computers and Society
2017-03-20 v1
Abstract
The Bitcoin digital currency appeared in 2009. Since this time, researchers and practitioners have looked under the hood of the open source Bitcoin currency, and discovered that Bitcoins Blockchain software architecture is useful for non-monetary purposes too. By coalescing the research and practice on Blockchains, this work begins to unpack Blockchains as a general phenomenon, therein, arguing that all Blockchain phenomena can be conceived as being comprised of transaction platforms and digital ledgers, and illustrating where public key encryption plays a differential role in facilitating these features of Blockchains.
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@article{arxiv.1703.06117,
title = {Unpacking Blockchains},
author = {J. Prpić},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.06117},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Collective Intelligence 2017. NYU Tandon School of Engineering. June 15-16, 2017