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Blockchain has been touted as a revolutionary technology. However, despite the excitement, blockchain has not been adopted in many fields. Many are hesitant to adopt blockchain technology due to privacy concerns, barriers to use, or lack of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Collin Connors , Dilip Sarkar

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 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

Blockchain has made an impact on today's technology by revolutionizing the financial industry in its utilization on cryptocurrency and the features it provided on decentralization. With the current trend of pursuing the decentralized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Javad Zarrin , Phang Hao Wen , Lakshmi Babu Saheer , Bahram Zarrin

In the given technology-driven era, smart cities are the next frontier of technology, aiming at improving the quality of people's lives. Many research works focus on future smart cities with a holistic approach towards smart city…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-22 S. Valli Sanghami , John J. Lee , Qin Hu

The internet of things (IoT) and other emerging ubiquitous technologies are supporting the rapid spread of smart systems, which has underlined the need for safe, open, and decentralized data storage solutions. With its inherent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Naseem Alsadi , Syed Zaidi , Mankaran Rooprai , Stephen A. Gadsden , John Yawney

Blockchain technology has been used to build next-generation applications taking advantage of its decentralised nature. Nevertheless, there are some serious concerns about the trustworthiness of blockchain due to the vulnerabilities in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Yue Liu , Qinghua Lu , Guangsheng Yu , Hye-Young Paik , Harsha Perera , Liming Zhu

Modern cryptocurrencies exploit decentralised blockchains to record a public and unalterable history of transactions. Besides transactions, further information is stored for different, and often undisclosed, purposes, making the blockchains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Massimo Bartoletti , Andrea Bracciali , Stefano Lande , Livio Pompianu

Blockchain technology is affected by massive limitations in scalability with consequent repercussions on performance. This discussion aims at analyzing the state of the art of current available Layer II solutions to overcome these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Cosimo Sguanci , Roberto Spatafora , Andrea Mario Vergani

A blockchain framework is presented for addressing the privacy and security challenges associated with the Big Data in smart mobility. It is composed of individuals, companies, government and universities where all the participants collect,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-09-18 David Lopez , Bilal Farooq

This article suggests that the worldwide relevance of blockchain technology is motivated by the changes that it is expected to cause in: (i) the way that business is organised and (ii) regulated, as well as (iii) by the way that it changes…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Ruzanna Chitchyan , Jordan Murkin

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

The presented work continues the line of recent distributed computing communityefforts dedicated to the theoretical aspects of blockchains. This paper is the rst tospecify blockchains as a composition of abstract data types all together…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Emmanuelle Anceaume , Antonella Del Pozzo , Romaric Ludinard , Maria Potop-Butucaru , Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni

The world has been experiencing a mind-blowing expansion of blockchain technology since it was first introduced as an emerging means of cryptocurrency called bitcoin. Currently, it has been regarded as a pervasive frame of reference across…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Ziaur Rahman , Xun Yi , Ibrahim Khalil , Andrei Kelarev

Blockchain has come a long way: a system that was initially proposed specifically for cryptocurrencies is now being adapted and adopted as a general-purpose transactional system. As blockchain evolves into another data management system,…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Pingcheng Ruan , Tien Tuan Anh Dinh , Dumitrel Loghin , Meihui Zhang , Gang Chen , Qian Lin , Beng Chin Ooi

The success of blockchain as the underlying technology for cryptocurrencies has opened up possibilities for its use in other application domains as well. The main advantages of blockchain for its potential use in other domains are its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Mehrdad Salimitari , Mainak Chatterjee

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

Decentralization, immutability and transparency make of Blockchain one of the most innovative technology of recent years. This paper presents an overview of solutions based on Blockchain technology for multi-agent robotic systems, and…

Blockchain offers an innovative approach to storing information, executing transactions, performing functions, and establishing trust in an open environment. Many consider blockchain as a technology breakthrough for cryptography and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Rui Zhang , Rui Xue , Ling Liu

Society is in constant transition to keep up with technological advancement, we are seeing traditional paradigms being increasingly challenged. The fundamentals of governance are one such paradigm. As society's values have shifted, so have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Freya Sheer Hardwick , Raja Naeem Akram , Konstantinos Markantonakis