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Blockchain Gaps From Myth to Real Life
This book analyzes the fundamental issues faced when blockchain technology is applied to real-life applications. These concerns, not only in the...
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Balancing Security: A Moving Target
Blockchain technology has come a long way since its inception in the form of Bitcoin in 2009. With a growing interest from industry and academia came...
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Blockchains and Provenance: How a Technical System for Tracing Origins, Ownership and Authenticity Can Transform Social Trust
Provenance and trust can be seen as closely related concepts. This chapter explores the use of blockchain technology to trace provenance, taking as a...
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Incentives to Engage Blockchain and Ecosystem Actors
Incentives are stimuli that motivate or influence behaviour. This chapter considers how incentives may influence the adoption of emerging...
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Blockchain-Grundlagen
Eine Blockchain ist ein Verzeichnis von Informationsblöcken (z. B. Transaktionen, Verträge etc.), die aufeinander aufbauend über ein Computernetzwerk...
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Fundamentals of Blockchains
Many platforms referred to as “blockchains” have been developed in recent years, and there is a growing expectation that these platforms will be...
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The Bitcoin “Consensus” Problems
In discussion about blockchain, the term “consensus” is often used. For example, somebody might explain the blockchain’s function as follows: “It is...
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Are Blockchains Trustless?
It is often touted that the innovation that the blockchain brought is its trustlessness, in that it does not require a trusted third party to achieve...
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Building Decentralized Trust Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Design of Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers
This volume brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars from diverse fields including computer science, engineering, archival science, law,...
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Entwickeln Sie Ihre eigene Blockchain Ein praktischer Leitfaden zur Distributed-Ledger-Technologie
Dieses Buch bietet eine umfassende Einführung in die Blockchain- und Distributed-Ledger-Technologie. Es ist ein Leitfaden für Praktiker und enthält...
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The Myth of “Blockchain is Scalable” and Real Challenges
“Blockchain changes the global payment system.”
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The Current State of the Global Movement
The concept specific to blockchain is its capacity to process transactions and contracts by recording states of rights and values under a...
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Misunderstandings and Expectations of the Blockchain Created by Bitcoin
Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that created the blockchain concept, is also the largest and longest-running blockchain.
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Unexpected Pitfalls of Bitcoin
The Bitcoin blockchain achieves a strong tamper resistance by exploiting cryptographic technologies.
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The Biggest Problem of Blockchains: Key Management
The mechanisms of blockchains are based on cryptographic technologies such as digital signatures and hash functions.
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Conclusion: Theorizing from Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Design of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Systems (Part 2)
This concluding chapter further develops the “three layer” model (i.e., the social, data/records and technical layers) of distributed ledger...
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Introduction: Theorizing from Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Design of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Systems (Part I)
Blockchain and distributed ledger technology is being advanced as a possible solution to the global crisis of trust, but in practice, this technology...
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Distributing and Democratizing Institutional Power Through Decentralization
Discussions of decentralization with respect to blockchain have tended to focus on the architecture of decentralization, its influence, and potential...
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Blockchain in Aktion: Praxisanwendungen
Da wir uns dem Ende der Untersuchung von Funktionsweise und Details der Blockchain nähern, halten wir es für sinnvoll, einen Überblick über die Fälle...
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Kryptowährungen
Eine Kryptowährung existiert ausschließlich im digitalen Bereich, um dort als Tauschmittel zu dienen. Einträge von Einheiten in einer...