Blockchain offers applications well beyond Bitcoin but faces its own limitations

S Ornes - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
In 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto introduced the world to Bitcoin, a volatile digital currency that's
untethered to any specific institution or country (1).(Satoshi Nakamoto was quickly revealed …

Q: How secure is a blockchain, really? A: It turns out" secure" is a funny word to pin down

M Orcutt - MIT Technology Review, 2018 - go.gale.com
The whole point of using a blockchain is to let people-in particular, people who don't trust
one another--share valuable data in a secure, tamperproof way. That's because block …

Blockchain: A path to the future

A Kaur, A Nayyar, P Singh - Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Blockchain, which was invented by Satoshi Nakamoto to serve as the public transaction
ledger of Bitcoin, has received a great amount of attention. Blockchain allows transactions to …

Blockchain technology's overview: Consensus, architecture and future trends

R Naaz, AK Saxena, PK Shah - AIP Conference Proceedings, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Blockchain has been recently widely used as the foundation of Bitcoin. Blockchain is an
immutable ledger that allows for a decentralized transaction. There are emergent Blockchain …

[PDF][PDF] A review of the Blockchain literature

G Pîrlea - UCL george. pirlea, 2016 - students.cs.ucl.ac.uk
The Bitcoin paper gives a very high level overview of the system. It does not describe how
Bitcoin is actually implemented. If you only read the paper, you will have an inexact (and in …

Bitcoin and blockchain

O Kharif, M Leising - Bloomberg QuickTake, 2018 - ceresaig.com
After years of volatility, the price of bitcoin reached a new high in early 2017, a surge tied in
part to increased interest in China, where bitcoin is seen as protection against currency …

A Layman's Guide to Bitcoin and Blockchain

B Chowdhry, S Kim - The Palgrave Handbook of Technological Finance, 2021 - Springer
In this chapter, we provide an overview of the Bitcoin blockchain and we describe the
underlying consensus protocol (aka, the Nakamoto consensus), which has now been used …

Blockchain Technology: Bitcoin as a case

M Huhmo - 2018 - theseus.fi
This thesis goes over Blockchain technology in the case of Bitcoin, how and what
Blockchains do and what kinds of uses Blockchain might have in the future in different …

Research challenges and opportunities in blockchain and cryptocurrencies

QH Mahmoud, M Lescisin… - Internet Technology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The blockchain is the underlying technology of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency, and it has created
much excitement in the technology and research communities. A blockchain is a distributed …

[引用][C] Blockchain revolution: how the technology behind bitcoin is changing money, business, and the world

D Tapscott, A Tapscott - 2016 - Penguin