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2019
Blockchain and smart contracts are receiving an ever-growing attention from the industrial and research fields as well as a wide coverage from the media. In fact, while at the beginning, blockchain’s and smart contracts’ core concepts were only mastered by a small group of technology enthusiasts, recently a high number of people with different ...
Valentina Gatteschi +2 more
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Blockchain and smart contracts are receiving an ever-growing attention from the industrial and research fields as well as a wide coverage from the media. In fact, while at the beginning, blockchain’s and smart contracts’ core concepts were only mastered by a small group of technology enthusiasts, recently a high number of people with different ...
Valentina Gatteschi +2 more
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Smart (Legal) Contracts, or: Which (Contract) Law for Smart Contracts?
2020The law applicable to smart contracts is a neglected topic. At times it is even discarded as irrelevant or unnecessary. In fact, many authors claim that smart contracts especially when stored and executed with the help of blockchain technology make contract law and, in fact, the entire legal system obsolete.
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Blockchain and Smart Contracts [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2019 8th International Conference on Software and Information Engineering, 2019 This paper presents an introduction to the current state of art of the Blockchain and Smart Contract technologies. Blockchain is a fast-disruptive technology becoming a key instrument in share economy. The Blockchain-based Smart Contract aim to automatically and securely execute the needed responsibilities of a contract without the support of a ...
Manar Abdelhamid, Ghada Hassan
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The chimera of smart contracts
2020This comprehensive Research Handbook examines the continuum between private ordering and state regulation in the lex mercatoria, highlighting constancy and change in this dynamic and evolving system in order to offer an in-depth discussion of international commercial contract law.
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2020
The traditional financial system has the ability to facilitate forensic investigations into crimes relating to financial fraud. The same cannot be said about the blockchain-based financial system that has come to exist over the past few years. This financial system does not tolerate third parties impeding transactions and so presents the problem of not
Byron Kruger, Wai Sze Leung
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The traditional financial system has the ability to facilitate forensic investigations into crimes relating to financial fraud. The same cannot be said about the blockchain-based financial system that has come to exist over the past few years. This financial system does not tolerate third parties impeding transactions and so presents the problem of not
Byron Kruger, Wai Sze Leung
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Fun with Bitcoin Smart Contracts
2018Besides simple transfers of currency, Bitcoin also enables various forms of smart contracts, i.e. protocols where users interact within pre-agreed rules, which determine (possibly depending on the actual interaction) how currency is eventually distributed.
Bartoletti, Massimo +2 more
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Smart Contracts for Contract Management
2020This book chapter discusses the advantages of smart contracts for contract management by presenting a decentralized application for retention payment on the blockchain platform. The proposed smart contract application performs the execution of retention clauses of a typical project contract by performing automated payment of retention immediately after
Rifat Sonmez +2 more
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2021
Decentralized digital ledger technology (DLT) archives data transparent and immutable with a trustless encrypted protocol and a consensus mechanism. It allows secure, public or private transactions with or without anonymity, depending on the blockchain. Smart contracts consist of code that can be executed in a DLT environment.
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Decentralized digital ledger technology (DLT) archives data transparent and immutable with a trustless encrypted protocol and a consensus mechanism. It allows secure, public or private transactions with or without anonymity, depending on the blockchain. Smart contracts consist of code that can be executed in a DLT environment.
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