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Realizing a blockchain solution without blockchain? Blockchain, solutionism, and trust
Regulation & Governance, 2023 Abstract Blockchain 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 ...
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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Privacy Preservation & Security Solutions in Blockchain Network [PDF]
, 2021 Blockchain has seen exponential progress over the past few years, and today its usage extends well beyond cryptocurrencies. Its features, including openness, transparency, secure communication, difficult falsification, and multi-consensus, have made it ...
Zhu, Saide
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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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, 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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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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, 2023 Die vorliegende Studie hat zum Ziel, Potenziale und Einsatz möglichkeiten der Blockchain-Technologie in ausgewählten Bereichen des Anlagenmanagements zu ermitteln. Nach einer Einführung in das Themenfeld des Anlagenmanagements und in die Grundlagen der
Heller, Thomas +4 more
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Anarchy, Blockchain and Utopia: A theory of political-socioeconomic systems organised using Blockchain [PDF]
, 2018 Blockchain technology makes it more feasible for individuals to exit political-socioeconomic systems at the level of the system itself and elect to accede freely to institutional systems which formulate, promulgate, keep and verify institutions and ...
Brendan Markey-Towler
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Revealing the Disintermediation Concept of Blockchain Technology
, 2021 Typically, people have a misconception about blockchain as they associate this technology with cryptocurrency. This chapter does not focus, however, on bitcoin or cryptocurrencies that pertain to its intrinsic value.
Teck Ming Tan +9 more
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Food Traceability on Blockchain: Walmart’s Pork and Mango Pilots with IBM [PDF]
, 2018 In response to food contamination scandals worldwide, retail giant Walmart is tackling food safety in the supply chain using blockchain technology. In 2016, it established the Walmart Food Safety Collaboration Center in Beijing and plans to invest $25 ...
Reshma Kamath
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