Abstract
Notary services have long been identified as a recurrent example for dematerialisation through blockchain adoption, but has failed to become a world wide reality. The key issue being the distinct legal frameworks throughout the world. Europe in this context has a more restrictive legal context with regard to blockchain use. In this work, we briefly discuss the European role of the Notary, review the existing European solutions and identify related open issues that are not resolved in the existing solutions.
A. Pinto—This work is partially financed by National Funds through the Portuguese funding agency, FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, within project UIDB/50014/2020.
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Pinto, A., Silva, J. (2020). Revisiting Blockhain Use in Notary Services: An European Perspective. In: Prieto, J., Pinto, A., Das, A., Ferretti, S. (eds) Blockchain and Applications. BLOCKCHAIN 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1238. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52535-4_11
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