Crypto collectibles, museum funding and OpenGLAM: challenges, opportunities and the potential of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)

F Valeonti, A Bikakis, M Terras, C Speed… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) make it technically possible for digital assets to be owned and
traded, introducing the concept of scarcity in the digital realm for the first time. Resulting from …

Blockchain for decentralization of internet: prospects, trends, and challenges

J Zarrin, H Wen Phang, L Babu Saheer, B Zarrin - Cluster Computing, 2021 - Springer
Blockchain has made an impact on today's technology by revolutionizing the financial
industry through utilization of cryptocurrencies using decentralized control. This has been …

Effect of the gas price surges on user activity in the daos of the ethereum blockchain

Y Faqir-Rhazoui, MJ Ariza-Garzón, J Arroyo… - Extended Abstracts of …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Blockchain technology has enabled a thriving emergent ecosystem of tools and
communities actively using decentralized systems. However, most blockchain infrastructure …

Blockchain: Consensus algorithm key performance indicators, trade-offs, current trends, common drawbacks, and novel solution proposals

Y Merrad, MH Habaebi, EAA Elsheikh, FEM Suliman… - Mathematics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Consensus protocols stand behind the success of blockchain technology. This is because
parties that distrust each other can make secure transactions without the oversight of a …

Blockchain for citizens' participation in urban planning: The case of the city of Berlin. A value sensitive design approach

B Ietto, J Rabe, R Muth, F Pascucci - Cities, 2023 - Elsevier
The aim of the paper is to investigate how a blockchain-based platform for citizens'
participation in urban planning should be developed adopting a Value Sensitive Design …

Enacting the last mile: experiences of smart contracts in courier deliveries

E Tallyn, J Revans, E Morgan, K Fisken… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Smart contract systems could change the nature of last-mile delivery for the better through
enhanced precision, coordination and accountability. However, technological complexity …

BlocKit: a physical kit for materializing and designing for blockchain infrastructure

IE Khairuddin, C Sas, C Speed - Proceedings of the 2019 on designing …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Blockchain is a disruptive technology which has significantly challenged assumptions that
underpin financial institutions, and has provoked innovation strategies that have the …

Dialogues on decolonial participatory design praxis during a revolution

R Talhouk, S Armouch - … of the Participatory Design Conference 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
On the 17th of October 2019, people from across Lebanon participated in nation-wide
protests which ignited a revolution condemning the political elite and the dire socioeconomic …

Permeability, interoperability, and velocity: Entangled dimensions of infrastructural grind at the intersection of blockchain and shipping

K Jabbar, P Bjørn - ACM Transactions on Social Computing, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Blockchain can potentially be appropriated as a social computing technology, which
enables transactions across people and artefacts via a large socio-technical information …

PizzaBlock: Designing artefacts and roleplay to understand decentralised identity management systems

J Rankin, C Elsden, I Sibbald, A Stevenson… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
This pictorial describes in detail the design, and multiple iterations, of PizzaBlock-a role-
playing game and design workshop to introduce non-technical participants to decentralised …