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Hyperledger fabric Open
Fabric is a modular and extensible open-source system for deploying and operating permissioned blockchains and one of the Hyperledger projects hosted by the Linux Foundation (www.hyperledger.org). Fabric is the first truly extensible block…
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Where Is Current Research on Blockchain Technology?—A Systematic Review Open
Blockchain is a decentralized transaction and data management technology developed first for Bitcoin cryptocurrency. The interest in Blockchain technology has been increasing since the idea was coined in 2008. The reason for the interest i…
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Algorand Open
© 2017 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Algorand is a new cryptocurrency that confirms transactions with latency on the order of a minute while scaling to many users. Algorand ensures that users never have divergent views of confi…
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Blockchain distributed ledger technologies for biomedical and health care applications Open
Objectives To introduce blockchain technologies, including their benefits, pitfalls, and the latest applications, to the biomedical and health care domains. Target Audience Biomedical and health care informatics researchers who would like …
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SoK: Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies Open
Bit coin has emerged as the most successful cryptographic currency in history. Within two years of its quiet launch in 2009, Bit coin grew to comprise billions of dollars of economic value despite only cursory analysis of the system's desi…
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A Survey of Blockchain From the Perspectives of Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities Open
Blockchain is the underlying technology of a number of digital cryptocurrencies. Blockchain is a chain of blocks that store information with digital signatures in a decentralized and distributed network. The features of blockchain, includi…
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A Survey on Security and Privacy Issues of Bitcoin Open
Bitcoin is a popular cryptocurrency that records alltransactions in a distributed append-only public ledger calledblockchain. The security of Bitcoin heavily relies on the incentive-compatible proof-of-work (PoW) based distributed consensu…
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The economics of BitCoin price formation Open
This is the first article that studies BitCoin price formation by considering both the traditional determinants of currency price, e.g., market forces of supply and demand, and digital currencies specific factors, e.g., BitCoin attractiven…
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Blockchain for AI: Review and Open Research Challenges Open
Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain have become two of the most trending and disruptive technologies. Blockchain technology has the ability to automate payment in cryptocurrency and to provide access to a shared ledger of…
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The Supply Chain Has No Clothes: Technology Adoption of Blockchain for Supply Chain Transparency Open
Blockchain technology, popularized by Bitcoin cryptocurrency, is characterized as an open-source, decentralized, distributed database for storing transaction information. Rather than relying on centralized intermediaries (e.g., banks) this…
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The contagion effects of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from gold and cryptocurrencies Open
At the beginning of the 2020 global COVID-2019 pandemic, Chinese financial markets acted as the epicentre of both physical and financial contagion. Our results indicate that a number of characteristics expected during a "flight to safety" …
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Blockchain-based traceability in Agri-Food supply chain management: A practical implementation Open
The recent, exponential rise in adoption of the most disparate Internet of Things (IoT) devices and technologies has reached also Agriculture and Food (Agri-Food) supply chains, drumming up substantial research and innovation interest towa…
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Security and Privacy on Blockchain Open
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 cybers…
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Sex, Drugs, and Bitcoin: How Much Illegal Activity Is Financed through Cryptocurrencies? Open
Cryptocurrencies are among the largest unregulated markets in the world. We find that approximately one-quarter of bitcoin users are involved in illegal activity. We estimate that around $\$$76 billion of illegal activity per year involve …
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Applications of Blockchains in the Internet of Things: A Comprehensive Survey Open
The Blockchain technology has revolutionized the digital currency space with the pioneering cryptocurrency platform named Bitcoin. From an abstract perspective, a blockchain is a distributed ledger capable of maintaining an immutable log o…
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BlockChain: A Distributed Solution to Automotive Security and Privacy Open
Interconnected smart vehicles offer a range of sophisticated services that benefit the vehicle owners, transport authorities, car manufacturers, and other service providers. This potentially exposes smart vehicles to a range of security an…
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ContractFuzzer: fuzzing smart contracts for vulnerability detection Open
Decentralized cryptocurrencies feature the use of blockchain to transfer\nvalues among peers on networks without central agency. Smart contracts are\nprograms running on top of the blockchain consensus protocol to enable people\nmake agree…
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Towards an Optimized BlockChain for IoT Open
There has been increasing interest in adopting BlockChain (BC), that underpins the crypto-currency Bitcoin, in Internet of Things (IoT) for security and privacy. However, BCs are computationally expensive and involve high bandwidth overhea…
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ZEUS: Analyzing Safety of Smart Contracts Open
A smart contract is hard to patch for bugs once it is deployed, irrespective of the money it holds.A recent bug caused losses worth around $50 million of cryptocurrency.We present ZEUS-a framework to verify the correctness and validate the…
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Solutions to Scalability of Blockchain: A Survey Open
Blockchain-based decentralized cryptocurrencies have drawn much attention and been widely-deployed in recent years. Bitcoin, the first application of blockchain, achieves great success and promotes more development in this field. However, …
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A Systematic Review of the Use of Blockchain in Healthcare Open
Blockchain technology enables a decentralized and distributed environment with no need for a central authority. Transactions are simultaneously secure and trustworthy due to the use of cryptographic principles. In recent years, blockchain …
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Formal Verification of Smart Contracts Open
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Are cryptocurrencies a safe haven for equity markets? An international perspective from the COVID-19 pandemic Open
The COVID-19 pandemic provided the first widespread bear market conditions since the inception of cryptocurrencies. We test the widely mooted safe haven properties of Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tether from the perspective of international equit…
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Blockchains and the economic institutions of capitalism Open
Blockchains are a new digital technology that combines peer-to-peer network computing and cryptography to create an immutable decentralised public ledger. Where the ledger records money, a blockchain is a cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoin; b…
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Towards Scaling Blockchain Systems via Sharding Open
Existing blockchain systems scale poorly because of their distributed consensus protocols. Current attempts at improving blockchain scalability are limited to cryptocurrency. Scaling blockchain systems under general workloads (i.e., non-cr…
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Hyperledger Fabric: A Distributed Operating System for Permissioned Blockchains Open
Fabric is a modular and extensible open-source system for deploying and operating permissioned blockchains and one of the Hyperledger projects hosted by the Linux Foundation (www.hyperledger.org). Fabric is the first truly extensible block…
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Is Bitcoin Really Untethered? Open
This paper investigates whether Tether, a digital currency pegged to the U.S. dollar, influenced Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency prices during the 2017 boom. Using algorithms to analyze blockchain data, we find that purchases with Tether …
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Enhancing Bitcoin Security and Performance with Strong Consistency via\n Collective Signing Open
While showing great promise, Bitcoin requires users to wait tens of minutes\nfor transactions to commit, and even then, offering only probabilistic\nguarantees. This paper introduces ByzCoin, a novel Byzantine consensus protocol\nthat leve…
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Initial Coin Offerings: Financing Growth with Cryptocurrency Token Sales Open
Initial coin offerings (ICOs) have emerged as a new mechanism for entrepreneurial finance, with parallels to initial public offerings, venture capital, and presale crowdfunding. In a sample of more than 1,500 ICOs that collectively raise $…
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Decentralized Applications: The Blockchain-Empowered Software System Open
Blockchain technology has attracted tremendous attention in both academia and\ncapital market. However, overwhelming speculations on thousands of available\ncryptocurrencies and numerous initial coin offering (ICO) scams have also\nbrought…