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Blockchain is a decentralized transaction and data management solution, the technological leap behind the success of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. As the variety of existing blockchains and distributed ledgers continues to increase,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Martin Garriga , Stefano Dalla Palma , Maximiliano Arias , Alan De Renzis , Remo Pareschi , Damian Andrew Tamburri

Today there is considerable interest in deploying blockchains and decentralized ledger technology as a means to address the deficiencies of current financial and digital asset infrastructures. The focal point of attention in many projects…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Denis Avrilionis , Thomas Hardjono

In recent years decentralized currencies developed through Blockchains are increasingly becoming popular because of their transparent nature and absence of a central controlling authority. Though a lot of computation power, disk space, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Anirudha Paul

The blockchain initially gained traction in 2008 as the technology underlying bitcoin, but now has been employed in a diverse range of applications and created a global market worth over $150B as of 2017. What distinguishes blockchains from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Shehar Bano , Alberto Sonnino , Mustafa Al-Bassam , Sarah Azouvi , Patrick McCorry , Sarah Meiklejohn , George Danezis

This research paper provides a comprehensive analysis of Bitcoin, delving into its evolution, adoption, and potential future implications. As the pioneering cryptocurrency, Bitcoin has sparked significant interest and debate in recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Neelesh Mungoli

Decentralization has been widely acknowledged as a core virtue of blockchains. However, in the past, there have been few measurement studies on measuring and comparing the actual level of decentralization between existing blockchains using…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Qinwei Lin , Chao Li , Xifeng Zhao , Xianhai Chen

Blockchain eliminates the need for trusted third-party intermediaries in business by enabling decentralised architecture design in software applications. However, the vulnerabilities in on-chain autonomous decision-makings and cumbersome…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Yue Liu , Qinghua Lu , Guangsheng Yu , Hye-Young Paik , Liming Zhu

It is undeniable that artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain concepts are spreading at a phenomenal rate. Both technologies have distinct degree of technological complexity and multi-dimensional business implications. However, a common…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Tshilidzi Marwala , Bo Xing

Blockchain technology has rapidly emerged to mainstream attention, while its publicly accessible, heterogeneous, massive-volume, and temporal data are reminiscent of the complex dynamics encountered during the last decade of big data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Poupak Azad , Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora , Arijit Khan

In the context of blockchain systems, the importance of decentralization is undermined by the lack of a widely accepted methodology to measure it. To address this gap, we set out a systematization effort targeting the decentralization…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Christina Ovezik , Dimitris Karakostas , Mary Milad , Aggelos Kiayias , Daniel W. Woods

Bitcoin is the first successful decentralized global digital cash system. Its mining process requires intense computational resources, therefore its usefulness remains a disputable topic. We aim to solve three problems with Bitcoin and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-08-25 Alexander Chepurnoy , Mario Larangeira , Alexander Ojiganov

The last decade has been marked by the evolution of cryptocurrencies, which have captured the interest of the public through the offered opportunities and the feeling of freedom, resulting from decentralization and lack of authority to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Arunkumar Velayudhan Pillai

Blockchain has received a widespread attention because of its decentralized, tamper-proof, and transparent nature. Blockchain works over the principle of distributed, secured, and shared ledger, which is used to record, and track data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Muneeb Ul Hassan , Mubashir Husain Rehmani , Jinjun Chen

As a disruptive technology, blockchain, particularly its original form of bitcoin as a type of digital currency, has attracted great attentions. The innovative distributed decision making and security mechanism lay the technical foundation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Ameer Tamoor Khan , Xinwei Cao , Shuai Li

This review focuses on the evolution of cloud computing and distributed ledger technologies (blockchains) over the last decade. Cloud computing relies mainly on a conceptually centralized service provisioning model, while blockchain…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Magnus Westerlund , Nane Kratzke

Blockchain, the backbone of Bitcoin, has recently gained a lot of attention. Blockchain functions as an immutable record that enables decentralized transactions. Blockchain-based applications are sprouting up in a variety of industries,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Aakash Garg , Ankit Tyagi , Anant Patel , Divyansh Raj

The development of blockchain technology has significantly enhanced the security and transparency of personal information and transaction records. Concurrent with the advancement of blockchain technology and the emergence of the digital…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zeng Zhang , Xiaoqi Li

Since its inception as a solution for secure cryptocurrencies sharing in 2008, the blockchain technology has now become one of the core technologies for secure data sharing and storage over trustless and decentralised peer-to-peer systems.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Noe Elisa , Longzhi Yang , Honglei Li , Fei Chao , Nitin Naik

A lot of business and research effort currently deals with the so called decentralised ledger technology blockchain. Putting it to use carries the tempting promise to make the intermediaries of social interactions superfluous and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Rainer Rehak

Recently, there has been growing interest in the field of cloud manufacturing (CM) amongst researchers in the manufacturing community. Cloud manufacturing is a customer-driven manufacturing model that was inspired by cloud computing, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Ali Vatankhah Barenji , Hanyang Guo , Zonggui Tian , Zhi Li , W. M. Wang , George Q. Huang