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What is Distributed ledger

Chapter 7
Blockchain Technology and Computational Excellence for Society 5.0
A decentralized database managed by multiple members of a network across multiple nodes.
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Blockchain and Copyright: Challenges and Opportunities
Pedro Pina (Polytechnic of Coimbra, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8382-1.ch007
Abstract
Advances in the field of digital technology are constantly introducing new levels of controversy into copyright policy. Blockchain is the most recent technology with significative impact in digital copyright. Combined with smart contracts, blockchain enables new efficient forms of distribution of copyrighted works and also a new model of private ordering regarding the control of uses of works on the Internet. The chapter aims to examine the relationship and the most relevant intersections between blockchain, digital exploitation of copyrighted works, copyright law, and privacy law.
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Chapter 12
Data Confidentiality, Integrity, and Authentication
It’s a decentralized technology to eliminate the need for a central authority or intermediary to process, validate, or authenticate transactions or other types of data exchanges.
Published in Chapter: Data Confidentiality, Integrity, and Authentication; From: Architectures and Frameworks for Developing and Applying Blockchain Technology
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Chapter 6
Distributed Technologies and Consensus Algorithms for Blockchain
An e-ledger that is stored in a distributed fashion at peer nodes of a blockchain. It holds details of assets or transactions that are time stamped, stored in an immutable fashion, and are updated whenever there is state change.
Published in Chapter: Distributed Technologies and Consensus Algorithms for Blockchain; From: Novel Research and Development Approaches in Heterogeneous Systems and Algorithms
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Chapter 11
Beyond Scattered Applications: A Taxonomy of Blockchain Outcomes in the Public Domain
A type of a database that records digital transactions whose information and details are documented in multiple places simultaneously.
Published in Chapter: Beyond Scattered Applications: A Taxonomy of Blockchain Outcomes in the Public Domain; From: Blockchain Technology Applications in Businesses and Organizations
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Chapter 3
Securing Digital Ecosystems: Harnessing the Power of Intelligent Machines in a Secure and Sustainable Environment
Is a shared, replicated, and synchronised database within a network. Each participant can add information by disseminating the changes to other nodes in the network.
Published in Chapter: Securing Digital Ecosystems: Harnessing the Power of Intelligent Machines in a Secure and Sustainable Environment; From: Handbook of Research on AI and ML for Intelligent Machines and Systems
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Chapter 16
Emerging Blockchain Applications in Mobility: Use Case-Specific Blockchain Types, Consensus Mechanisms, and Implementation Challenges
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Chapter 2
Review of the Blockchain Technology and Consensus Algorithms for IoT-Based Banking
A distributed ledger is a record of consensus that includes a cryptographic audit trail that nodes maintain and validate. It might be either decentralized or centralized in nature.
Published in Chapter: Review of the Blockchain Technology and Consensus Algorithms for IoT-Based Banking; From: AI-Enabled Agile Internet of Things for Sustainable FinTech Ecosystems
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Chapter 3
A Blockchain-Based Approach to Revolutionizing Healthcare
Distributed ledgers are shared repositories synchronized and maintained simultaneously by multiple stakeholders (nodes), accessible by numerous parties with equal rights. Any modifications made to the ledger are reflected and made available to all stakeholders shortly after they are implemented. In the network chain, each node can access the complete set of data available across the system.
Published in Chapter: A Blockchain-Based Approach to Revolutionizing Healthcare; From: Revolutionizing Digital Healthcare Through Blockchain Technology Applications
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Chapter 22
The Linkage Between Blockchain and the Regulatory Function of Governments
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Chapter 6
New Financial Technologies, Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain, and Challenges
A database that is consensually shared and synchronized across multiple sites, institutions or geographies. A distributed ledger (also called a shared ledger or distributed ledger technology or DLT) is a consensus of replicated, shared, and synchronized digital data and documents geographically spread across multiple sites, countries, or institutions.
Published in Chapter: New Financial Technologies, Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain, and Challenges; From: Handbook of Research on Creating Sustainable Value in the Global Economy
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Chapter 10
Navigating the GDPR Compliance Conundrum: Analyzing Public Blockchain Systems and Personal Data Protection Rights
A type of database that is replicated and synchronized across multiple locations or participants in a network. In the context of blockchain, the distributed ledger ensures that all participants have a copy of the blockchain, eliminating the need for a centralized authority and enabling transparency and consensus.
Published in Chapter: Navigating the GDPR Compliance Conundrum: Analyzing Public Blockchain Systems and Personal Data Protection Rights; From: New Perspectives and Possibilities in Strategic Management in the 21st Century: Between Tradition and Modernity
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Chapter 171
Blockchain for Supply Chain Management: Opportunities, Technologies, and Applications
It is a database that is consensually shared and synchronized across multiple sites, organizations or geographies.
Published in Chapter: Blockchain for Supply Chain Management: Opportunities, Technologies, and Applications; From: Encyclopedia of Organizational Knowledge, Administration, and Technology
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Blockchain Basics: A Deep Dive Into the Blocks, Chains, and Consensus
Refers to a synchronized and replicated digital database that contains data which is shared and disseminated over multiple computers.
Published in Chapter: Blockchain Basics: A Deep Dive Into the Blocks, Chains, and Consensus; From: Decentralizing the Online Experience With Web3 Technologies
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Chapter 7
Blockchain: A Resource of Competitive Advantage in Open and Distance Learning System
A digital record of ownership. It does not have any centralized administrator or data storage and hence is different from conventional database technology. It is replicated among many various nodes in a peer-to-peer system where every transaction is signed with a private key in a unique way.
Published in Chapter: Blockchain: A Resource of Competitive Advantage in Open and Distance Learning System; From: Blockchain Technology Applications in Education
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Chapter 13
Blockchain and IoT Integration in Dairy Production to Survive the COVID-19 Situation in Sri Lanka
A consensus of geographically spread replicated, shared, and synchronized digital data across multiple sites, countries, or institutions.
Published in Chapter: Blockchain and IoT Integration in Dairy Production to Survive the COVID-19 Situation in Sri Lanka; From: Blockchain and AI Technology in the Industrial Internet of Things
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Chapter 4
Cross-Industry Use of Blockchain Technology and Opportunities for the Future: Blockchain Technology and Aritificial Intelligence
A distributed ledger is a database that is spread across different computer systems, countries or organizations. Records are stored one after the other in a continuous ledger. Distributed ledger data can be either “permissioned” or “un-permissioned.”
Published in Chapter: Cross-Industry Use of Blockchain Technology and Opportunities for the Future: Blockchain Technology and Aritificial Intelligence; From: Cross-Industry Use of Blockchain Technology and Opportunities for the Future
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Chapter 31
The Intersection of Cybercrime and the Blockchain
A database synchronized among multiple nodes that maintains a record of transactions.
Published in Chapter: The Intersection of Cybercrime and the Blockchain; From: Handbook of Research on Cyber Crime and Information Privacy
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Chapter 16
Blockchain Applications in the COVID-19 Era
It is the infrastructure in which encrypted and distributed data is stored in a decentralized manner. It is also a database spread and synchronized over a network of multiple nodes, institutions, or geographies.
Published in Chapter: Blockchain Applications in the COVID-19 Era; From: Handbook of Research on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Threats and Impacts of Pandemics
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Chapter 10
Applications of Secured Blockchain Technology in the Manufacturing Industry
A collection of data (making up a database), an identical copy held on numerous computers across an organisation, a country, multiple countries, or the entire world. A blockchain is a distributed ledger, but not all distributed ledgers are blockchains.
Published in Chapter: Applications of Secured Blockchain Technology in the Manufacturing Industry; From: Blockchain and AI Technology in the Industrial Internet of Things
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Chapter 2
Blockchain Applications in Lifelong Learning and the Role of the Semantic Blockchain
Distributed ledgers are replicated, shared and synchronised digital data geographically dispersed over multiple sites, possibly including multiple institutions.
Published in Chapter: Blockchain Applications in Lifelong Learning and the Role of the Semantic Blockchain; From: Blockchain Technology Applications in Education
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Chapter 15
Blockchain and IoT-Based Diary Supply Chain Management System for Sri Lanka
A consensus of geographically spread replicated, shared, and synchronized digital data across multiple sites, countries, or institutions.
Published in Chapter: Blockchain and IoT-Based Diary Supply Chain Management System for Sri Lanka; From: Blockchain and AI Technology in the Industrial Internet of Things
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