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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

A Framework for Blockchain-Based Applications [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2018
Blockchains have recently generated explosive interest from both academia and industry, with many proposed applications. But descriptions of many these proposals are more visionary projections than realizable proposals, and even basic definitions are often missing.
arxiv  

Distributed Nonblocking Commit Protocols for Many-Party Cross-Blockchain Transactions [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2020
The interoperability across multiple blockchains would play a critical role in future blockchain-based data management paradigm. Existing techniques either work only for two blockchains or requires a centralized component to govern the cross-blockchain transaction execution, neither of which would meet the scalability requirement. This paper proposes a
arxiv  

Blockchain: A Graph Primer

open access: yes, 2017
Bitcoin and its underlying technology Blockchain have become popular in recent years. Designed to facilitate a secure distributed platform without central authorities, Blockchain is heralded as a paradigm that will be as powerful as Big Data, Cloud ...
Akcora, Cuneyt Gurcan   +2 more
core  

Philosophy of Blockchain Technology - Ontologies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
About the necessity and usefulness of developing a philosophy specific to the blockchain technology, emphasizing on the ontological aspects. After an Introduction that highlights the main philosophical directions for this emerging technology, in ...
Sfetcu, Nicolae
core   +1 more source

FL-GUARD: A Holistic Framework for Run-Time Detection and Recovery of Negative Federated Learning

open access: yesData Science and Engineering
Federated learning (FL) is a promising approach for learning a model from data distributed on massive clients without exposing data privacy. It works effectively in the ideal federation where clients share homogeneous data distribution and learning ...
Hong Lin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of International Rules in Blockchain-Based Cross-Border Commercial Disputes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
[excerpt] The concept of online dispute resolution (ODR) is not new. 1 But, with the advent of Web 3.0, the distributed web that facilitates pseudonymous and cross-border transactions via blockchain\u27s distributed ledger technology, 2 the idea of, and ...
Evans, Tonya M.
core   +1 more source

The microvelocity of money in Ethereum

open access: yesEPJ Data Science
The transfer velocity of money is a macroeconomic quantity that measures the frequency of exchanges in an economy. For cryptoassets it can be exactly measured adopting a new approach, MicroVelocity.
Francesco Maria De Collibus   +2 more
doaj   +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  

Blockchain out of the Box – Where is the Blockchain in Blockchain-as-a-Service? [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2021
Alan Kernahan   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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