Blockchain vs ISO 9001:2015

Blockchain and Economic Development: Hype vs. Reality

Increasing attention is being paid to the potential of blockchain technology to address long-standing challenges related to economic development. Blockchain proponents argue that it will expand opportunities for exchange and collaboration by reducing reliance on intermediaries and the frictions associated with them. The purpose of this paper is to provide a clear-eyed view of the technology’s p...

Blockchain Revolution without the Blockchain

The technology behind blockchain has attracted a lot of attention. However, this technology is for the most part not well understood. There is no consensus on what benefits it may bring or on how it may fail. A careful look into the technology finds that most of the proposed benefits of so called blockchain technologies do not really come from elements unique to blockchain. Instead, they come f...

Blockchain

Blockchain technology and distributed ledgers are attracting massive attention and trigger multiple projects in different industries. However, the financial industry is seen as a primary user of the blockchain concept. This is not only due to the fact that the most well-known application of this technology is the crypto-currency Bitcoin, but it is also driven by substantial process inefficienci...

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Blockchain Consensus

In this paper, we present a new definition of Byzantine consensus that applies to blockchains, applications that allow to transfer digital assets through transactions. More precisely, a blockchain is a distributed abstraction where participants must reach a consensus on a unique block of transactions to be appended to the chain. This new consensus definition requires a validity property based o...