A Survey Paper on Blockchain Technology

Banking on Blockchain: Costs Savings Thanks to the Blockchain Technology

This paper looks at the challenges and opportunities of implementing blockchain technology across banking, providing food for thought about the potentialities of this disruptive technology. The blockchain technology can optimize the global financial infrastructure, achieving sustainable development, using more efficient systems than at present. In fact, many banks are currently focusing on bloc...

A Blockchain Based on Gossip? – a Position Paper

A blockchain is an append-only sequence of blocks of arbitrary data. The two most popular approaches to blockchains are permissionless blockchains based on Proof of Work (PoW) and permissioned blockchains based on Byzantine consensus or Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT). The first is based on competitions between anonymous participants solving cryptopuzzles, while the latter is a cooperative appr...

Blockchain Technology in Finance

Survey on Blockchain Technologies and Related Services

1 Background and Objective of the Survey Compared with conventional centralized systems, blockchain technologies used for transactions of value records, such as bitcoins, structurally have the characteristics that (i) enable the creation of a system that substantially ensures no downtime (ii) make falsification extremely hard, and (iii) realize inexpensive system. Blockchain technologies are ex...

Where Is Current Research on Blockchain Technology?—A Systematic Review

Blockchain is a decentralized transaction and data management technology developed first for Bitcoin cryptocurrency. The interest in Blockchain technology has been increasing since the idea was coined in 2008. The reason for the interest in Blockchain is its central attributes that provide security, anonymity and data integrity without any third party organization in control of the transactions...