Blockchain, as a decentralized and distributed public ledger technology in peer-to-peer
network, has received considerable attention recently. It applies a linked block structure to …

Blockchains offer a decentralized, immutable and verifiable ledger that can record
transactions of digital assets, provoking a radical change in several innovative scenarios …

Bitcoin is a popular cryptocurrency that records all transactions in a distributed append-only
public ledger called blockchain. The security of Bitcoin heavily relies on the incentive …

Blockchain is a decentralized transaction and data management technology developed first
for Bitcoin cryptocurrency. The interest in Blockchain technology has been increasing since …

In the Internet of Things (IoT) scenario, the block-chain and, in general, Peer-to-Peer
approaches could play an important role in the development of decentralized and …

Besides attracting a billion dollar economy, Bitcoin revolutionized the field of digital
currencies and influenced many adjacent areas. This also induced significant scientific …

In contemporary era of technologies, blockchain has acquired tremendous attention from
various domains. It has wide spectrum of applications ranging from finance to social services …

A comparative study across the most widely known blockchain technologies is conducted
with a bottom-up approach. Blockchains are disentangled into building blocks. Each …

Bitcoin is the most widely known distributed, peer-to-peer payment network without
existence of a central authority. In Bitcoin, users do not use real names; instead …

February 2011 saw the emergence of Silk Road, the first successful online anonymous
marketplace, in which buyers and sellers could transact with anonymity properties far …