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Blockchain represents a technology for establishing a shared, immutable version of the truth between a network of participants that do not trust one another, and therefore has the potential to disrupt any financial or other industries that…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-11-02 Marek Laskowski , Henry M. Kim

In this literature review, we first briefly provide an introduction on the privacy aspect of blockchain systems and why it is a difficult quality to achieve, especially using traditional methods. Next, we go over a wide range of different…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Jad Wahab

Blockchain technology provides a secure and decentralized platform for storing and transferring sensitive medical data, which can be utilized to enable remote medical consultations. This paper proposes a theoretical framework for creating a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Syed Sarosh Mahdi , Zaib Ullah , Gopi Battineni , Muneer Gohar Babar , Umer Daood

Blockchain is an emerging technology that has enabled many applications, from cryptocurrencies to digital asset management and supply chains. Due to this surge of popularity, analyzing the data stored on blockchains poses a new critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora , Murat Kantarcioglu , Yulia R. Gel

Cryptocurrency is something that we have all heard about recently, most likely preceded by bitcoin, and how much its prices have boomed over the decade. These cryptocurrencies are actually based on blockchain, a secure datatype, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Nayak Bhatia , Sanchit Bansal , Smit Desai

As an emerging service framework built by combining cryptography, P2P network, consensus mechanism and innovative contract technology, blockchain has been widely used in digital finance, data sharing, message traceability and electronic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Wenwen Zhou , Dongyang Lyu , Xiaoqi Li

With the more and more extensive application of blockchain, blockchain security has been widely concerned by the society and deeply studied by scholars. Moreover, the security of blockchain data directly affects the security of various…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Liehuang Zhu , Baokun Zheng , Meng Shen , Shui Yu , Feng Gao , Hongyu Li , Kexin Shi , Keke Gai

Blockchain was always associated with Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and digital asset trading. However, its benefits are far beyond that. It supports technologies like the Internet-of-Things (IoT) to pave the way for futuristic smart…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Maad Ebrahim , Abdelhakim Hafid , Etienne Elie

In most High Performance Computing (HPC) projects nowadays, there is a lot of data obtained from different sources, depending on the project's objectives. Some of that data is very huge in terms of size, so copying such data sometimes is an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Gian Sebastian Mier Bello , Alexander Martinez Mendez , Carlos J. Barrios H. , Robinson Rivas , Luis A. Núñez

Blockchain has received much attention recently, due to its promises of verifiable, permanent, decentralized, and efficient data handling. In 2017-2019 blockchain and associated technologies such as smart contracts has progressed beyond…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Artyom Kosmarski

Nowadays, huge amounts of data are generated every second, and a quantity of that data can be defined as sensitive. Blockchain technology has private, secure, transparent and decentralized exchange of data as native. It is adaptable and can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-16 M. Sipek , M. Zagar , B. Mihaljevic , N. Draskovic

Blockchain technology has gained tremendous popularity both in practice and academia. The goal of this article is to develop a coherent overview of the state of the art in blockchain technology, using a systematic(i.e.,protocol-based,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Bert-Jan Butijn , Damian A. Tamburri , Willem-Jan Van Den Heuvel

Blockchain has been proposed to facilitate the enactment of interorganisational business processes. For such processes, blockchain can guarantee the enforcement of rules and the integrity of execution traces - without the need for a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Fabian Stiehle , Ingo Weber

As a technology foundation of cryptocurrencies, blockchain enables decentralized peer-to-peer trading through consensus mechanisms without the involvement of a third party. Blockchain has been regarded as an auspicious technology for future…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Ahmed Refaey , Karim Hammad , Sebastian Magierowski , Ekram Hossain

The food supply chain has a number of challenges, including a lack of transparency and disengagement among stakeholders. By providing a transparent and traceable digital ledger of transactions and movements for all supply chain actors,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Narayan Subramanian , Atharva Joshi , Daksh Bagga

Blockchain has emerged as a decentralized and distributed framework that enables tamper-resilience and, thus, practical immutability for stored data. This immutability property is important in scenarios where auditability is desired, such…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Mustafa Safa Ozdayi , Murat Kantarcioglu , Bradley Malin

Blockchain technology provides a private, secure, transparent decentralized exchange of data. Also, blockchain is not limited to a particular area, but it has a wide range of applications and can be integrated into a variety of Internet…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-17 M. Sipek , M. Zagar , B. Mihaljevic

Blockchain is a disruptive technology that is normally used within financial applications, however it can be very beneficial also in certain robotic contexts, such as when an immutable register of events is required. Among the several…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Vasco Lopes , Luís A. Alexandre , Nuno Pereira

The primary purpose of this paper is to provide a design of a blockchain-based system, which produces a verifiable record of achievements. Such a system has a wide range of potential benefits for students, employers and higher education…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Bakri Awaji , Ellis Solaiman , Lindsay Marshall

Blockchain is a radical innovation with a unique value proposition that shifts trust from institutions to algorithms. Still, the potential of blockchains remains elusive due to knowledge gaps between computer science research and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Olga Labazova , Erol Kazan , Tobias Dehling , Tuure Tuunanen , Ali Sunyaev