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Unpacking Blockchains

open access: yes, 2017
The Bitcoin digital currency appeared in 2009. Since this time, researchers and practitioners have looked “under the hood” of the open source Bitcoin currency, and discovered that Bitcoin’s “Blockchain” software architecture is useful for non-monetary purposes too.
openaire   +4 more sources

Shaping Energy Transitions: Sectoral Demand, Climate Risk Exposure, and Renewable Pathways in Sub‐Saharan Africa

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Energy is a fundamental driver of economic growth, shaping productivity, industrialization, and long‐term economic resilience. In sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA), where energy access remains uneven and infrastructure is underdeveloped, understanding sector‐specific energy demand is essential for designing sustainable energy strategies.
Michael Appiah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Blockchain Anomaly

open access: yes2016 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), 2016
Most popular blockchain solutions, like Bitcoin, rely on proof-of-work, guaranteeing that the output of the consensus is agreed upon with high probability. However, this probability depends on the delivery of messages and that the computational power of the system is sufficiently scattered among pools of nodes in the network so that no pool can mine ...
Christopher Natoli, Vincent Gramoli
openaire   +2 more sources

Digital Technologies for Transparent and Sustainable Supply Chain Management: A Resource Orchestration‐Based View in the Textile Industry

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Implementing digital technologies is touted as the next big step for the firms aiming to improve sustainability in their supply chains. These technologies are often credited with the potential to improve transparency and achieve sustainability.
Amna Farrukh, Aqeel Ahmed, Sadaat Yawar
wiley   +1 more source

BLOCKCHAIN: A CHAIN OF OPPORTUNITIES

open access: yes, 2022
reservedLa prova finale si propone di analizzare il tema della tecnologia blockchain. Nella prima si è parlato delle basi, spiegando cosa sia la blockchain, come funzioni e come venga utilizzata nella pratica. Nella seconda sezione sono proposti quattro
BOZZOLAN, DAVIDE
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Double‐layer Byzantine fault‐tolerant grouping consensus algorithm based on raft

open access: yesIET Blockchain
Addressing the scalability issues, excessive communication overhead, and challenges in adapting to large‐scale network node environments faced by the Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) consensus algorithm currently employed in consortium ...
Haotian Yuan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stakeholder Engagement as a Design Principle: Orchestrating a Digital Platform for the Safety and Sustainability of the Nanomaterials Sector

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The governance of chemicals and nanomaterials presents a critical challenge, as significant uncertainties regarding safety and sustainability match their innovation potential. This creates a “knowledge‐to‐action” gap, hindering the practical implementation of safety and sustainability by design (SSbD) principles.
Mario Miozza   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The business case for blockchain in health care — part I

open access: yesBlockchain in Healthcare Today, 2020
While an organization might want to focus on a specific emerging technology to solve a business probelm, strong organizations focus on an honest evaluation, internally and externally, to assure the timing and the business value for using the technology ...
Ali Loveys, Chen Zur
doaj  

The Cost of Trust: A Pilot Study

open access: yesThe Journal of The British Blockchain Association, 2018
Trust is a fundamental precondition underpinning exchange and economic coordination but is costly to maintain. Given the potential for agents to enjoy zero-sum gains by opportunistically betraying the trust of exchanging counterparties, an edifice of ...
Sinclair Davidson   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Intelligent Manufacturing, Industrial Agglomeration, and Green and Low‐Carbon Development: A Nonlinear Path Test Based on the Theory of Ecological Modernization

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing upon ecological modernization theory as the analytical framework, this study employs macro‐level longitudinal tracking data covering China's major regions as research samples. It measures the green and low‐carbon development (GLCD) of manufacturing from the four dimensions—“carbon reduction, pollution mitigation, ecological expansion ...
Deng Wang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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