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Formalizing Distributed Ledger Objects [PDF]
, 2017 In his PODC’2017 keynote address, Maurice Herlihy pointed out that despite the hype about blockchains and distributed ledgers, no formal abstraction of these objects has been proposed.
Georgiou, Chryssis +2 more
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Intersections between IoT and distributed ledger
, 2019 The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing exponentially. It allows not only humans but also all various devices and objects in the environment to be connected over the Internet to share their data to create new applications and services which result in a ...
Hany F. Atlam +3 more
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Ex‐Ante Assessment of Farm Resilience to Institutional Shocks: A Modeling Approach
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using the agent‐based model SWISSland, we simulate farm‐level responses and interactions under two institutional shocks: tariff reductions and direct payment reductions. Using a framework we developed, we assess resilience capacities, resilience attributes, and the provision of private and public goods, following the shock.
Nadja El Benni, Gabriele Mack
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Scientific DataEthereum, one of the leading smart contract blockchain platforms, currently operates on a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism designed to secure the network while incentivizing desired validator behaviors.
Tao Yan +4 more
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Apex: A High-Performance Hierarchical Distributed Ledger
, 2019 Designing a secure permission distributed ledger that has the same performance a centralized counterpart, such as Visa, is a challenging task. The majority of available distributed ledgers are unable to scale to that degree.
Jararweh, Yaser +3 more
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A Privacy Preserving Distributed Ledger Framework for Global Human Resource Record Management: The Blockchain Aspect [PDF]
, 2020 Blockchain is a technology used with the series of users in peer-to-peer transactions to utilize the usability properties of the immutable data records. The distributed nature of this technology has given the wide acceptance to its range of applications ...
Thomas, Reji +6 more
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Extension Economists: Valued in Mission, Penalized in Practice
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As the public engagement arm of the land‐grant mission, we argue that Extension faculty in US agricultural economics departments face an identity crossroads as they struggle for institutional support. Specifically, we argue that Extension economists function as boundary‐spanning professionals within academic structures that often devalue ...
Trey Malone +5 more
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Evaluation of Post-Quantum Distributed Ledger Cryptography
The Journal of The British Blockchain Association, 2019 This paper evaluates the current cybersecurity vulnerability of the prolific use of Elliptical Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (**ECDSA**) cryptography in use by the Bitcoin Core, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, and enterprise blockchains such as Multi-Chain ...
Robert Campbell Sr.
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Statistical detection of selfish mining in proof-of-work blockchain systems
Scientific ReportsThe core of many cryptocurrencies is the decentralised validation network operating on proof-of-work technology. In these systems, validation is done by so-called miners who can digitally sign blocks once they solve a computationally-hard problem ...
Sheng-Nan Li +2 more
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Blockchain and Recordkeeping: Editorial
Computers, 2021 Distributed ledger technologies (DLT), including blockchains, combine the use of cryptography and distributed networks to achieve a novel form of records creation and keeping designed for tamper-resistance and immutability.
Victoria L. Lemieux
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