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Reward Distribution in Proof-of-Stake Protocols: A Trade-Off Between Inclusion and Fairness
IEEE Access, 2023 Proof-of-Stake (PoS) variants provide an energy-efficient alternative to Proof-of-Work (PoW). However, it is not clear whether practical PoS implementations are fair with respect to wealth, stake, and reward distribution.
Sheng-Nan Li +2 more
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Realizing a blockchain solution without blockchain? Blockchain, solutionism, and trust
Regulation & Governance, 2023 AbstractBlockchain is employed as a technology holding a solutionist promise, while at the same time, it is hard for the promissory blockchain applications to become realized. Not only is the blockchain protocol itself not foolproof, but when we move from “blockchain in general” to “blockchain in particular,” we see that new governance structures and ...
Meyers, Gert, Keymolen, Esther
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Socialism and the Blockchain [PDF]
Future Internet, 2016 Bitcoin (BTC) is often cited as Libertarian. However, the technology underpinning Bitcoin, blockchain, has properties that make it ideally suited to Socialist paradigms. Current literature supports the Libertarian viewpoint by focusing on the ability of Bitcoin to bypass central authority and provide anonymity; rarely is there an examination of ...
Steve Huckle, Martin White
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Internet Policy Review, 2021 Blockchain governance can be regarded as the integration of norms and culture, the laws and the code, the people and the institutions that facilitate coordination and together determine a given organisation.
Aron Fischer, María-Cruz Valiente
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To Blockchain or Not to Blockchain: That Is the Question
IT Professional, 2018 Blockchain has been considered a breakthrough technology-but does your company need it? In this article, the authors discuss the advantages and disadvantages of blockchain technology using examples from the insurance sector, which can be generalized and applied to other sectors.
GATTESCHI, VALENTINA +4 more
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An engaging and comprehensive exploration of how fundamental ideas in political and legal thought shape the governance of blockchain communities, and are, in turn, shaped by blockchain technology. How can digital cash truly be “trustless”? What does it mean that blockchain offers a new paradigm of the “rule of code”?
DE FILIPPI, Primavera +2 more
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Inventions, 2023 High-quality luxury products cater to a specific group of consumers due to their durability and the value attached to them. Counterfeiting luxury products has resulted in economic losses for both the producers and consumers.
Chibuzor Udokwu +5 more
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CoRR, 2020 There exist many forms of Blockchain finality conditions, from deterministic to probabilistic terminations. To favor availability against consistency in the face of partitions, most blockchains only offer probabilistic eventual finality: blocks may be revoked after being appended to the blockchain, yet with decreasing probability as they sink deeper ...
Anceaume, Emmanuelle +3 more
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A Systematic Literature Review of Empirical Research on Stablecoins
FinTech, 2023 This study reviews the current state of empirical literature on stablecoins. Based on a sample of 22 peer-reviewed articles, we analyze statistical approaches, data sources, variables, and metrics, as well as stablecoin types investigated and future ...
Lennart Ante +3 more
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, 2022 Pre-print. Book chapter (50 pages) in "Handbook on Blockchain". Duc A. Tran, My T. Thai, and Bhaskar Krishnamachari (eds).
Duc A. Tran, Bhaskar Krishnamachari
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