Everything You Wanted to Know About the Blockchain: Its Promise, Components, Processes, and Problems

By Deepak Puthal, N. Malik, S. Mohanty, E. Kougianos, Gautam Das. IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, 2018

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In 2008, the emergence of the blockchain as the foundation of the first-ever decentralized cryptocurrency not only revolutionized the financial industry but proved a boon for peer-to-peer (P2P) information exchange in the most secure, efficient, and transparent manner. The blockchain is a public ledger that works like a log by keeping a record of all transactions in chronological order, secured by an appropriate consensus mechanism and providing an immutable record. Its exceptional characteristics include immutability, irreversibility, decentralization, persistence, and anonymity.

Subfields: Information Systems

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