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Leveraging Blockchain and Smart Contracts to Combat Greenwashing in Sustainable Development

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Blockchain technology, when combined with smart contracts, enables buyers to distinguish between greenwashed and genuinely eco‐friendly products. The presence of counterfeit items can severely impact supply chains by diminishing brand value, eroding consumer confidence, and undermining market trust.
Ragnhild Silkoset, Arne Nygaard
wiley   +1 more source

The Art of The Scam: Demystifying Honeypots in Ethereum Smart Contracts [PDF]

, 2019
Modern blockchains, such as Ethereum, enable the execution of so-called smart contracts - programs that are executed across a decentralised network of nodes.
State, Radu, Steichen, Mathis, Torres, Christof Ferreira   +2 more
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Understanding the Association Between Bitcoin Mining and Environmental Sustainability in Light of the Sustainable Development Goals Through the DARDL and KRLS Methods

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Assuring environmental sustainability is essential for the continuity of the ecosystem. Every sector of the economy has some degree of impact on environmental sustainability. The United Nations (UN)’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have placed these objectives within a broader global framework, offering a global plan aimed at ensuring ...
Ali Çelik, Metehan Özırmak
wiley   +1 more source

Blockchain Authentication Mechanism for Securing Internet of Things

Pakistan Journal of Engineering & Technology, 2020
Internet of Things is a recent potential advancement in an IT arena, consists of multiple smart things (devices) which are connected through a physical network. Cisco incorporation predicts that IoT network will connect 50 billion devices by 2020.
Khadija Fazal , Adeel M. Syed
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Blockchain for Peer‐to‐Peer Energy Trading in Electric Vehicle Charging Stations With Constrained Power Distribution and Urban Transportation Networks

Energy Internet, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The proliferation of distributed energy resources (DERs) and the large‐scale electrification of transportation are driving forces behind the ongoing evolution for transforming traditionally passive consumers into prosumers (both consumers and producers) in coordinated power distribution network (PDN) and urban transportation network (UTN).
Matin Farhoumandi, Sheida Bahramirad, Mohammad Shahidehpour, Ahmed Alabdulwahab   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Blockchain privacy and regulatory compliance: Towards a practical equilibrium

Blockchain: Research and Applications
We study Privacy Pools, a novel smart contract-based privacy-enhancing protocol. The protocol introduces a mechanism for users to reveal certain properties of their transaction without having to reveal the transaction itself.
Vitalik Buterin, Jacob Illum, Matthias Nadler, Fabian Schär, Ameen Soleimani   +4 more
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THE IMPACT OF ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN CRYPTO ASSETS ON CRYPTO ASSET PRICES AND CARBON EMISSIONS: CASE OF BITCOIN AND ETHEREUM [PDF]

Financial Studies
In this paper, it is aimed to evaluate the relationship between energy consumption in crypto assets and crypto asset prices. In this direction, the price, CO2 emission and energy consumption series of Bitcoin and Ethereum between March 17, 2021, and ...
Meltem BİLİRER, Feyyaz ZEREN
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ECKOchain: A FAIR blockchain‐based database for long‐term ecological data

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Open data practices in ecology are increasingly accepted, yet primary long‐term ecological data remain hard to find. Barriers preventing open long‐term ecological data include social and economic constructs such as a sense of data proprietorship and fear of misuse of complex datasets. To incentivise open primary ecological data and ensure long‐
Kjell‐Erik Marstein, John‐Arvid Grytnes, Robert John Lewis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Commodification of Political Distrust: Do Crypto “Hodlers” Distrust Political Institutions?

Economics &Politics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study investigates the link between political distrust and long‐term cryptocurrency investment, motivated by the cryptocurrency market's volatility and the potential of digital currencies to alter economic–political systems. Utilizing panel data from Finland 2022–2023 on duration of ownership and political attitudes, the research uncovers ...
Anton Brännlund, Henrik Serup Christensen   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Performance Analysis of Blockchain Platforms

, 2018
Blockchain technologies have drawn massive attention to the world these past few years mostly because of the burst of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Etherium, Ripple and many others.
Maharjan, Pradip Singh
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