A survey of blockchain from the perspectives of applications, challenges, and opportunities

AA Monrat, O Schelén, K Andersson - Ieee Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Blockchain is the underlying technology of a number of digital cryptocurrencies. Blockchain
is a chain of blocks that store information with digital signatures in a decentralized and …

Blockchain based solutions to secure IoT: Background, integration trends and a way forward

S Saxena, B Bhushan, MA Ahad - Journal of Network and Computer …, 2021 - Elsevier
The lack of intrinsic security technologies in the current Internet of Things (IoT) systems
brings forth numerous security vulnerabilities and privacy risks. To this end, a distributed and …

Blockchain for the future of sustainable supply chain management in Industry 4.0

B Esmaeilian, J Sarkis, K Lewis, S Behdad - Resources, conservation and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The objective of this study is to provide an overview of Blockchain technology and Industry
4.0 for advancing supply chains towards sustainability. First, extracted from the existing …

Exploring the attack surface of blockchain: A comprehensive survey

M Saad, J Spaulding, L Njilla… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we systematically explore the attack surface of the Blockchain technology, with
an emphasis on public Blockchains. Towards this goal, we attribute attack viability in the …

A survey on security and privacy issues of bitcoin

M Conti, ES Kumar, C Lal, S Ruj - … communications surveys & …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Why do businesses go crypto? An empirical analysis of initial coin offerings

S Adhami, G Giudici, S Martinazzi - Journal of Economics and Business, 2018 - Elsevier
In this work, we provide the first comprehensive description of the Initial Coin Offering (ICO)
phenomenon, which by the end of 2017 allowed startups around the world to raise more …

[HTML][HTML] A review of blockchain architecture and consensus protocols: Use cases, challenges, and solutions

L Ismail, H Materwala - Symmetry, 2019 - mdpi.com
Over the last decade, blockchain technology has emerged to provide solutions to the
complexity and privacy challenges of using distributed databases. It reduces cost for …

The blockchain folk theorem

B Biais, C Bisiere, M Bouvard… - The Review of Financial …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Blockchains are distributed ledgers, operated within peer-to-peer networks. We model the
proof-of-work blockchain protocol as a stochastic game and analyze the equilibrium …

Decentralized mining in centralized pools

LW Cong, Z He, J Li - The Review of Financial Studies, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The rise of centralized mining pools for risk sharing does not necessarily undermine the
decentralization required for blockchains: because of miners' cross-pool diversification and …

Exploring the attack surface of blockchain: A systematic overview

M Saad, J Spaulding, L Njilla, C Kamhoua… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we systematically explore the attack surface of the Blockchain technology, with
an emphasis on public Blockchains. Towards this goal, we attribute attack viability in the …