Blockchain Technology Overview

By Dylan Yaga, Peter Mell, Nik Roby, Karen Scarfone. arXiv.org, 2018

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Blockchains are tamper evident and tamper resistant digital ledgers implemented in a distributed fashion (i.e., without a central repository) and usually without a central authority (i.e., a bank, company, or government). At their basic level, they enable a community of users to record transactions in a shared ledger within that community, such that under normal operation of the blockchain network no transaction can be changed once published. This document provides a high-level technical overview of blockchain technology. The purpose is to help readers understand how blockchain technology works.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Information Systems and Management

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