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Government Impact on Sustainable and Responsible Supply Chain Management
In simple, a blockchain is just a data structure that can be shared by different users using computing data communication network (e.g., peer-to-peer or P2P). Blockchain is a distributed data structure comprising a chain of blocks. It can act as a global ledger that maintains records of all transactions on a blockchain network. The transactions are time-stamped and bundled into blocks where each block is identified by its cryptographic hash .
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Drivers of Sustainable Supply Chain Management Using Internet of Things-Based Blockchain Technology
Kamalendu Pal (University of London, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-9062-4.ch010
Abstract
Information technologies are transforming conventional supply chain management (SCM) business practices and positively influencing sustainability. In particular, blockchain technology and the internet of things (IoT) are two important examples that play a significant role in sustainable supply chain management (SSCM). This chapter reviewed the impact of these technologies on SSCM separately and with their combination of forward and reversed supply chains. Academics and practitioners have studied the effects of these technologies on sustainability separately earlier, but integrating these technologies can lead to different insights and disclose several opportunities. Besides, the chapter highlights essential factors in developing blockchain and IoT to know the modern trends for industry automation, challenges, and future research opportunities on supply chain sustainability. Finally, the chapter presents an IoT-based service-oriented blockchain architecture for supply chain information systems that manifest the information-driven sustainability of the supply chain operation.
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A decentralized ledger of all transactions across a network, enabling secure, transparent, and tamper-proof data storage and transfers without the need for intermediaries.
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Blockchain is a state-of-the-art solution saving the growing list of records of any online activity or action as pieces of blocks using cryptography.
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A chain of blocks containing data that is bundled together. This database is shared across a network of computers (so-called distributed ledger network). Each data block links to the previous block in the blockchain through a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data. The blockchain only allows data to be written, and once that data has been accepted by the network, it cannot be changed.
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A system in which a record of transactions made in Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency is maintained across several computers that are linked in a peer-to-peer network.
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A decentralized digital ledger technology that records and securely stores transactions across a network of computers.
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A data structure that consists of growing lists of records, called “blocks”, securely linked together using cryptography. Each block contains a unique cryptographic code that does not allow the data it contains to be altered or modified.
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A system in which a record of transactions, especially those made in a cryptocurrency, is maintained across computers that are linked in a peer-to-peer network.
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Blockchain Technology and General Issue of Tax Evasion via Bitcoin
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A decentralized, distributed ledger technology that records the provenance of a digital asset.
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Blockchain technology is most simply defined as a decentralized, distributed ledger that records the provenance of a digital asset.
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Appendable-Block Blockchains: Overview, Applications, and Challenges
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A digital data storage system consisting of many servers. Through blockchain technology, data created by one server will be replicated and verified by another server. Thus, one data with other data will be tied to each other. If one data changes, other data will improve because the information is interconnected and networked. Technically, each block, which is the area that stores all transaction changes, contains a hash which is the identity of digital data from the previous block. When there is an attempt to change data in one block, data in another block must also be changed. This is what prevents the blockchain from various frauds, data modification, and hacking.
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Beyond Scattered Applications: A Taxonomy of Blockchain Outcomes in the Public Domain
A decentralized digital ledger that records executed transactions in the form of blocks with a cryptographic hash and specific timestamp.
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A Perspective on Using Blockchain for Ensuring Security in Smart Card Systems
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Reflection on the Latent Role of Institutional Trust for the Adoption of Cryptocurrencies: Cases on Bitcoin, JP Morgan Coin, Diem, and Japanese Listed Cryptocurrencies
It is a technological method that allows primary data or information packs to be carried, protected, and accessed. It is based on peer-controlled network system that protects alterations. If a user decides to change the primary information, it will require authorization from an aces key or from the majority of peer users who stored the data within a ledger.
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New Tools for Cyber Security Using Blockchain Technology and Avatar-Based Management Technique
Is a growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block a timestamp, and transaction data.
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Blockchain Technology for the Internet of Things Applications in Apparel Supply Chain Management
In simple, a blockchain is just a data structure that can be shared by different users using computing data communication network (e.g. peer-to-peer or P2P). Blockchain is a distributed data structure comprising a chain of blocks. It can act as a global ledger that maintains records of all transactions on a blockchain network. The transactions are time stamped and bundled into blocks where each block is identified by its cryptographic hash .
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Blockchain for Education Enterprises: A Digital Transformation Perspective of Strategic Learning
Blockchain is a foundational digital mechanism that offers a digitally distributed transactions journal, which can store cryptographic security enforced immutable data. It offers utility values such as digital trust, privacy, and security through public and private keys.
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Managing Supply Chain Digitalization With Blockchain Technology
In simple, a blockchain is just a data structure that can be shared by different users using computing data communication network (e.g., peer-to-peer or P2P). Blockchain is a distributed data structure comprising a chain of blocks. It can act as a global ledger that maintains records of all transactions on a blockchain network. The transactions are time-stamped and bundled into blocks where each block is identified by its cryptographic hash .
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Blockchain for Healthcare and Medical Systems
Blockchain is a system used for storing data so that it is difficult or impossible to alter, hack, or trick it. A blockchain is a decentralized ledger of transactions distributed through the blockchain's entire network of computer systems.
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Smart Contracts: An Overview
An electronic system that securely and reliably stores data on a specific network.
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How Can Technology Advance the Public Administration Discipline in Higher Education?: A Comprehensive Analysis of the U.S. Scenario
It is a technology that allows data management and autonomous peer-to-peer connectivity within networks by improving security when exchanging sensible information within the Internet (or networks in general).
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Socio-Technical Systems Engineering Perspectives Towards a South African Halaal Blockchain System
A fourth-industrial revolution technology that logs data immutably on a distributed ledger. This technology is lauded for its ability to provide security, traceability and transparency of all transactions logged on the ledger.
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Adoption of Blockchain in Supply Chain Financing
Blockchain is a relatively new technology which was first used as the underlying technology for the cryptocurrency bitcoin. It is a system where data is stored in a series of blocks based on cryptography. These blocks are linked by a chain, hence the term blockchain. Blockchain has several advantages including security, privacy, immutability and decentralization. It aims to inspire trust in the system thereby enabling disintermediation. It is also called the internet of value or the internet of money.
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Electronic Government
Is a technology that combines a number of mathematical, cryptographic, and economic principles that support the existence of a ledger distributed among several participants.
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Contemporary Trends and Technologies in Research Libraries: An Overview
A blockchain is an electronic database shared by computer network nodes.
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The Detection of SQL Injection on Blockchain-Based Database
It is created by a data block that is connected like a chain, where the data in the chain is consists of a list of records that are inter-linked by using a cryptography algorithm.
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Strategies and Business Models of Banks in Front of the FinTech and BigTech Competition
Distributed register of operations carried out in a given digital network, to which all users have access.
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Customer Experience and Delight in the Metaverse
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Machine Learning-Enabled Internet of Things Solution for Smart Agriculture Operations
Technology is a decentralized, distributed, and public digital ledger used to record transactions across many computers so that the record cannot be altered retroactively without altering all subsequent blocks and the network consensus.
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The Path to FinTech Development Research on Islamic Finance in Turkey
Blockchain is the technology especially used by cryptocurrency transactions. It actuates like a distributed public ledger where information, once entered, cannot be changed. The straightforward interpretation is that blockchain is a decentralized digital ledger which transcribes all digital business activities as a string of data stored on a global network of computers. Blockchain technology has various non-cryptocurrency implementations, consisting of smart contracts and records of digital transactions. Blockchain is a data recording process including a digital ledger of transactions, agreements, contracts, and in short, anything that comes to your mind in a digital environment that needs to be independently recorded and verified as having happened. The blockchain operates across several, hundreds, or even thousands of data processing machines basically across computers. Each time a new batch of transactions is encrypted, it is added to the ledger “chain” as a “block.”
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Blockchain Basics: A Deep Dive Into the Blocks, Chains, and Consensus
Is a decentralized and distributed digital ledger that securely and immutably records of transactions across a network of computers.
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Marketing Trends in the Cryptocurrency Industry
A decentralized digital ledger that records transactions across multiple computers, ensuring transparency, security, and immutability of data. It is the underlying technology for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
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Digital Supply Chain: A Proposed Solution to the Global Supply Chain Disruption Impact on Business Sustainability
A digital supply chain technology where distributed ledger databases consisting of transactional records are stored as encrypted blocks.
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Blockchain Technology With the Internet of Things in Manufacturing Data Processing Architecture
In simple, a blockchain is just a data structure that can be shared by different users using computing data communication network (e.g., peer-to-peer or P2P). Blockchain is a distributed data structure comprising a chain of blocks. It can act as a global ledger that maintains records of all transactions on a blockchain network. The transactions are time-stamped and bundled into blocks where each block is identified by its cryptographic hash .
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The Role of Blockchain Technology in Organizational Cyber Security
Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology that is decentralized and immutable. It is immutable because of its decentralized and distributed nature, data is stored across various nodes and a record is confirmed and stored after there is a consensus among the nodes (at least 51%). It is made of blocks linked by hash functions, each block contains the hash of the previous block which creates a situation where it would be difficult to make modifications to any block, as a change in a block will result in a change in the hash of previous block.
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Navigating Emerging Challenges in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in Africa
Distributed ledger technology that operates decentralized and transparently across numerous computers to securely record transactions. It provides an impenetrable means to record and verify data without requiring a central authority.
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Blockchain and Clinical Data Economics: The Tokenization of Clinical Research in the EU
A distributed ledger that allows the storage of digital data in a collection of blocks. A new block is added every single time a transaction occurs. These transactions are developed, transmitted, and validated on a peer-to-peer network.
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Regulatory Approval and Challenges in the Digital Era
It is a decentralized, distributed ledger technology that enables secure and transparent recording of transactions across multiple parties.
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Blockchain and Its Integration as a Disruptive Technology
Blockchain is a decentralized computation and information sharing platform which enables multiple authoritative domains that do not trust each other to cooperate coordinate and collaborate in a rational decision-making process.
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Conceptual Insights in Blockchain Technology: Security and Applications
The Blockchain is a decentralized computation and information sharing platform that enables multiple authoritative domains, who don’t trust each other, to cooperate, coordinate and collaborate in a rational decision making process.
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Blockchain Readiness: Expert Perspectives From a Developing Economy
A public ledger of unchangeable transactions of records in a block, linked in a chain that is distributed over a public network of nodes (computers) visible to everyone on the network.
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Blockchain Technology and Data Mining Tools for Combating Fraud: With Reference to the Banking Sector
It is an immutable, cryptographic, distributed, consensus-driven ledger. It is a software protocol for the instantaneous transfer of money and other forms of value via the Internet. It is a system of linking blocks in a chain format that stores data and is chronologically consistent. Because one cannot delete or modify the chain without consensus from the network.
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Blockchain Primer: Introduction to Blockchain Foundations and Implementation
A distributed growing network of data records which are connected using cryptography.
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Overcoming MSME Challenges With Blockchain
A chain of blocks represents a database that is shared across a network of computers. It is extremely difficult to alter a record after it has been put to the chain.
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Emerging Blockchain Applications in Mobility: Use Case-Specific Blockchain Types, Consensus Mechanisms, and Implementation Challenges
A distributed ledger technology that allows transparent, immutable, secure and reliable transactions between different network participants without needing any intermediaries.
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A Digital Transformation in International Transport and Logistics: Blockchain
It is a general account system that records and data related to transactions carried out over computer networks and which is recorded by taking into consideration the transaction sequence. This account system is open bookable because it is accessible to everyone on the network. It is a technology with internal access in blocks that cannot be changed by connecting encrypted data to the chain's rings. The process in this system, which has a time sequence, cannot be changed retrospectively. Because operations are stored in blocks connected to each other, a history-oriented operation cannot be deleted. All operations can be accessed and controlled when requested. This technology performs the processing sequence based on programmed contracts (smart contracts). With smart contract, many processes are automated, making complex and long-lasting processes easier to manage. First, it worked only with software and programmable protocols to transfer digital money. The current situation has improved rapidly with Blockchain 1.0, Blockchain 2.0 and Blockchain 3.0 for different purposes.
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Innovation Finance Beyond Bitcoin: Cryptocurrencies as Alternative Investments
A shared database between the nodes of a distributed ledger network where all past transactions are recorded in a chronological order.
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Harnessing the Power of Digital Transformation and Sustainability: The Chinese Experience
A digital ledger technology that allows multiple parties to have simultaneous access to a constantly updated database that is secure and unchangeable. In business, blockchain can be used for secure transactions, traceability, and enhanced transparency.
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Supply Chain Information System for Sustainability and Interoperability of Business Service
In simple, a blockchain is just a data structure that can be shared by different users using computing data communication network (e.g., peer-to-peer or P2P). Blockchain is a distributed data structure comprising a chain of blocks. It can act as a global ledger that maintains records of all transactions on a blockchain network. The transactions are time-stamped and bundled into blocks where each block is identified by its cryptographic hash .
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Adoption of Industry 4.0: Analysis and Action of Mexican Case
Technology that eliminates the intervention of third parties in the processes of information transfer, communication, among others.
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Revealing the Disintermediation Concept of Blockchain Technology: How Intermediaries Gain From Blockchain Adoption in a New Business Model
A distributed ledger database that is consensually shared and synchronized across the multistakeholder using cryptography.
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Exploring the Intersection of Digital Marketing and Retail: Challenges and Opportunities in AI, Privacy, and Customer Experience
A decentralized, distributed ledger technology that allows for secure and transparent record-keeping of transactions without the need for a central authority.
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Procurement Strategies for Digital Supply Chains: Concepts and Best Practices
Is a digital ledger that is decentralized, distributed and public. Blockchains are used to record transactions across many computers so that the records have the ability to be tracked and traced for any changes.
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Blockchain Technology Aptness for Improving Supply Chain Visibility, Resiliency, and Efficiency
A distributed peer-to-peer network that ensures the immutability of transactions through group consensus and cryptography.
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Transforming Urban Slums: Pathway to Functionally Intelligent Cities in Developing Countries
A type of highly distributed database or system of ledgers that ia linked using cryptography. A blockchain network maintains permanent records of transactions which are managed through peer-to-peer protocols requiring a majority level of consensus for any change. Blockchain was originally developed as the highly distributed secure framework for cryptocurrency trading. It has more recently been applied to the secure tracking of food from producer to consumer, to the tracking of high value assets, and to other applications where high levels of documentation create elevated transactional risk.
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The Impact of Decentralized Technologies on Social Media Megacorporations
An immutable list of records, called blocks linked each other by means of cryptography.
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Applications of Secured Blockchain Technology in the Manufacturing Industry
A distributed ledger taking the form of an electronic database that is replicated on numerous nodes spread across an organisation, a country, multiple countries over a diverse geographical area form a blockchain. Each hash for a block depends on the block header for that block. The block header for the block contains a reference to the previous block in the chain. Accordingly, therefore is a continuous chain back in time.
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A Decentralized Privacy Preserving Healthcare Blockchain for IoT, Challenges, and Solutions
In simple, a blockchain is just a data structure that can be shared by different users using computing data communication network (e.g., peer-to-peer or P2P). Blockchain is a distributed data structure comprising a chain of blocks. It can act as a global ledger that maintains records of all transactions on a blockchain network. The transactions are timestamped and bundled into blocks where each block is identified by its cryptographic hash .
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Role of Technology in Supply Chain Management for a Circular Economy
A distributed digital ledger that will record all transactions permanently in the organization.
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Integrate Hybrid Cloud Computing Server With Automated Remote Monitoring for Blockchain as a Service
The Blockchain is a decentralized computation and information sharing platform that enables multiple authoritative domains, who don’t trust each other, to cooperate, coordinate and collaborate in a rational decision-making process.
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Adoption of Libra as a Digital Currency in Thailand
A database in which a history of financial transactions made in cryptocurrencies are maintained across a peer-to-peer network of computers, as known as nodes. The blockchain of each cryptocurrency might be designed differently and this leads to different performance qualities, such as the time taken and the security of the system.
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Blockchain Technology and Its Applications
A distributed secured record-keeping system with a list structure.
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A Survey of KYC/AML for Cryptocurrencies Transactions
A distributed ledger among a large number of peers that is secured by a chain of information blocks linked together via the hash of the previous block and synchronized thanks to a consensus algorithm.
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The Impact of Blockchain Technology on the Financial Audit
Blockchain is a decentralized technology for storing and transmitting information. Technically, it consists of a distributed database in which the information sent by users and the links within the database are verified and grouped into blocks at regular intervals, all secured by cryptography.
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The Internet of Things and Blockchain Technologies Adaptive Trade Systems in the Virtual World: By Creating Virtual Accomplices Worldwide
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Blockchain Technology in Solar Energy
Essentially a distributed database of records or public ledger of all transactions or digital events that have been executed and shared among participating parties. Each transaction in the public ledger is verified by consensus of a majority of the participants in the system.
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K-Nearest Neighbors Algorithm (KNN): An Approach to Detect Illicit Transaction in the Bitcoin Network
Is a technology for the storage and transmission of information, transparent, secure, and operating without a central control body.
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Investigating Consumer Finance in Lebanon: An Empirical Study of ATM and Virtual Currency
A digital system to maintain a permanent record of information and transactions data. It is unfeasible to hack or edit. From its origin, block is an individual record and chain is the link of these blocks together.
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The Control of Transfer Pricing of Corporations by Blockchain Technology: Challenges and Solutions
A distributed ledger technology that makes transactions secure, more reliable, transparent, and trackable.
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Consumerism and Blockchain Technology: The Application of Technology to Improve Market Equalization
A public, immutable and permanent ledger, which works as database in a decentralized network, using cryptographic codes.
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Experience Design's Impact on Graphic Design
A blockchain is a platform that permits a distributed ledger of data that is updated and maintained by a network of computers rather than a single entity. Another name for a blockchain is distributed ledger technology (DLT). Cryptography is used by this distributed ledger to confirm, complete, and secure transactions.
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Revolutionizing Health Data Management With Blockchain Technology: Enhancing Security and Efficiency in a Digital Era
Blockchain is a decentralized digital ledger technology that records transactions across multiple computers in a way that ensures security, transparency, and immutability. It allows data to be stored and exchanged securely without central authority.
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Cybersecurity and Data Privacy in the Digital Age: Two Case Examples
An immutable online ledger the entries of which are generated through a collection of distributed nodes performing a Proof of Work (PoW).
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A Survey of Blockchain-Based Solutions for IoTs, VANETs, and FANETs
A decentralized system based on a peer-to-peer network. Each network object keeps a copy of the ledger to avoid having a single point of failure. This technology can be explored in many use cases and used as a secure way to manage and protect all kinds of data.
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Cryptocurrency Adoption
A decentralized, digital ledger that records transactions across a network of computers. The blockchain allows for secure, transparent, and tamper-proof recording of transactions.
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Accountability Revolution in the Digital Asset Business: Insights From the Cryptocurrency Market
A digital ledger that is distributed peer to peer worldwide that is linked together as a series of records, or blocks.
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Mechanism for the Systematic Generation of Functional Tests of Smart Contracts in Digital Publication Management Systems
It is a shared, immutable ledger that facilitates the process of recording transactions and tracking assets in a business network. An asset can be tangible (a house, car, cash, land) or intangible (intellectual property, patents, copyrights). Virtually anything of value can be tracked and traded on a blockchain network, reducing risk and cutting costs for all involved.
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Hybrid Artificially Intelligent Multi-Layer Blockchain and Bitcoin Cryptology (AI-MLBBC): Anti-Crime-Theft Smart Wall Defense
A system made-up of blocks that are used to record transactions in a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency network such as bitcoins.
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Shifting Gears: Redefining Supply Chain Visibility
A technology that enables an immutable ledger for the documentation of supply chain data that is accessible to many different parties and provides a shared data store for all.
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Preliminary Insights Into the Adoption of Bitcoin in a Developing Economy: The Case of Ghana
A distributed record or database of exchanges recorded in a dispersed way, in a network of computers.
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Quantum Blockchain: A Systematic Review
Traditional Blockchain which uses pre-quantum cryptography and not secure from quantum attacks.
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Blockchain-Based E-Healthcare Monitoring System Using Internet of Healthcare Things (IoHT): Blockchain in Healthcare
The exchange of health information powered by the blockchain can unlock the true value of interoperability. Blockchain-based systems could reduce or eliminate the costs and delays associated with current intermediaries. The potential benefits of blockchain for the health care ecosystem are significant. Utilizing this technology has the potential to connect fragmented systems and generate insights that can be used to better assess the value of care. A nationwide blockchain network for electronic medical records could lead to increased efficiency in the medical system and improve patient health outcomes.
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A Method for Implementing ERP Software in a Brazilian Company Operating in Portugal
Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology that aims at decentralization as a security measure. It works like a ledger, only in a public, shared and universal way, which creates consensus and trust in direct communication between two parties, that is, without the intermediary of third parties.
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Retail Procurement Strategies in Disruptive Environments: Concepts and Best Practices
A digital ledger that is decentralized, distributed, and public. Blockchains are deployed to record transactions across many computers so that the original assets can be tracked and traced for any changes.
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Blockchain-Based Health Information Systems to Improve Data Security
This is a shared database that promotes data storage in form of blocks. Each data block is stored in all the nodes in the network.
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Blockchain Risk and Uncertainty in Automated Applications
A ledger that is digital, and decentralized, and distributed on a peer to peer network. Its applications include cryptocurrencies and others.
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Temporal Blockchains for Intelligent Transportation Management and Autonomous Vehicle Support in the Internet of Vehicles
A public distributed ledger that stores committed transactions in an ordered list, or a chain, of blocks. Such a ledger is maintained by multiple distributed nodes (computers) which are linked in a peer-to-peer network and possibly do not trust each other, through a consensus mechanism and cryptography. Notice that the ledger is replicated over all nodes.
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Preserving Literacy Formats: Print, Digital, Audio-Visual, 3D, Virtual, and Augmented
A digital system which records transactions (often financial cryptocurrency) shared with a large decentralized computer network.
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Blockchain for Supply Chain Management: Opportunities, Technologies, and Applications
Blockchain is a type of public/private, immutable and distributed ledger for maintaining a permanent and tamper-proof record of transactional data.
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Blockchain in Gaming
A blockchain is a distributed database or ledger that is shared among the nodes of a computer network. As a database, a blockchain stores information electronically in digital format. Blockchains are best known for their crucial role in cryptocurrency systems, such as Bitcoin, for maintaining a secure and decentralized record of transactions. The innovation with a blockchain is that it guarantees the fidelity and security of a record of data and generates trust without the need for a trusted third party.
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Use of Smart Contracts and Distributed Ledger for Automation
Blockchain is a decentralized database that controls records of digital data or actions of each participant who has a copy of the ledger and may access, inspect, or add to the data, but can’t change or delete it making it tamper-proof since each new block of transactions links back to previous blocks providing enhanced immutability to the complete system. It is based on Distributed Ledger Technology(DLT), which works on the principle of game theory, cryptography, and P2P technology.
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Blockchain for Transformation in Digital Marketing
An expanding list of cryptographically signed, irrevocable, time-stamped transactional records shared by all participants in a network, containing reference links to previous transactions useful for tracing transactions.
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Exploring the Risks, Challenges, and Opportunities of Using Digital Financial Technologies for Green Finance
Refers to an advanced database mechanism that allows secure and transparent information sharing within a network.
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Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading Using Blockchain in Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards a Policy and Regulatory Framework
A distributed and immutable ledger that stores data in blocks and are linked together via cryptography.
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Effects of Quantum Technology on the Metaverse
A decentralized and transparent digital ledger technology that securely records and verifies transactions across multiple computers or nodes.
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Blockchains for Use in Construction and Engineering Projects
A file linked in a block structure that takes the form of a sequential database. It is ubiquitous, immutable, and traceable, and can record transactions with transparent and trusted rules in a peer-to-peer network.
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Applications of Machine Learning in Cyber Forensics
List of blocks distributed and linked via cryptography such as a digital ledger.
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Blockchain Technology, Vanilla Production, and Fighting Global Warming
The term for a system of recording information in a way that makes it difficult or even impossible to change back or cheat the system. A block chain is essentially a digital ledger of transactions that is duplicated and distributed across the network of computer systems on the block chain. Because all parties involved in the production and distribution of the goods or services see every transaction simultaneously, not only is system integrity enhanced, so is speed of movement, facilitating planning based on estimates of costs of inputs and profit targets, etc.
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Blockchain Technology in International Trade in Goods
A blockchain is a continuously expandable list of data records, which are linked together by cryptographic methods.
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Blockchain Use Cases in Healthcare
Blockchain, in computer terminology, refers to an ever-growing register of transactions held by blocks linked in a chain. The warehouse where these blocks, which are peer-to-peer, stores the transaction records, is called the digital ledger.
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Digital Transformation of Small and Medium Businesses
Is a technology that combines several mathematical, cryptographic, and economic principles that support the existence of a ledger distributed among several participants.
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A Blockchain-Based Approach to Revolutionizing Healthcare
This is a distributed network infrastructure based on protocols, which archives and manages information in a network of devices. The blockchain establishes logical guidelines for the arrangement of blocks in an electronic protocol for distributed processing. Linked together, successive authorized transaction blocks form a chain of exchanges, known as a blockchain.
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Extracting Insights From Bitcoin Transactions: Data Warehouse Modeling and Analytical Questions
A system in which a record of transactions made in a cryptocurrency are maintained across several computers that are linked in a peer-to-peer network. The ledger is immutable, which means that the data entered is irreversible. This means that transactions are permanently recorded and viewable to anyone.
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Fintech and Blockchain: Maximizing Benefit and Minimizing Harm
One form of distributed ledger technology. A peer-to-peer method of secure data transmission using grouped “blocks” of encrypted data.
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Role of Smart Contracts in Halal Supply Chain Management
A list of records namely blocks, that are tied with cryptography.
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Minimizing Risk of Disputes Among Telecommunication Carriers With Blockchain Technologies
Shared, immutable ledger that facilitates the process of recording transactions and tracking assets in a business network.
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AI Integration in E-Commerce Wishlists: Navigating Opportunities and Challenges
In the context of e-commerce wish lists, blockchain technology can be used to safeguard the security and transparency of wish list data. By providing a decentralized and absolute ledger, blockchain can help to avert unauthorized access, tampering or manipulation of wish list information, thereby enhancing trust and data integrity for both users and retailers.
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An Update on Bitcoin as a Digital Currency
The technology that allows for permanent tracking of all bitcoin transactions.
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A Reliable Hybrid Blockchain-Based Authentication System for IoT Network
It is a methodology that brings reliability to the network. The hashed code of the previous and present doings is attached to all the transmitted messages. The messages undergo verification for the same.
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Blockchain Introduced
One form of distributed ledger technology. A peer-to-peer method of secure data transmission using grouped “blocks” of encrypted data.
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Adoption of Blockchain to Support the National Health Insurance Implementation in South Africa: An Integrative Review
Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology which promotes data transparency, validity, security, and accessibility by storing network information within individual nodes across the network.
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The Effects of Metaverse and Blockchain-Based Cryptocurrencies on Social Life
A distributed database that is shared among the nodes of a computer network.
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A Systematic Literature Review on the Application of Blockchain Technology in Biometric Analysis Focusing on DNA
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Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain-Driven Islamic Capital Markets
A blockchain is a growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block a timestamp, and transaction data (generally represented as a Merkle tree).
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New Business Models for Society 5.0
Blockchain is a trusted peer-to-peer technology architecture using a distributed ledger technology (DLT) that can constantly track transactions in the form of blocks added to a transaction chain. No third part is required. Blockchain transactions are transparent and immutable.
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Digitalisation in Accounting: Is It a Risk or an Opportunity?
Refers to an advanced database mechanism that allows secure and transparent information sharing within a network.
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Emergence of Insurance Technologies (InsurTech): The Turkish Case
It is a recording system made up of blocks which are connected using cryptography, making the system a lot more secure.
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Securing Financial Inclusiveness Adoption of Blockchain FinTech Compliance
Can be defined as a shared ledger system or an established record of data not owned by a single entity and is used to record data transactions across multiple computers. Other than bitcoin which propagated the idea of Blockchain, the factors as to why the technology has gained popularity are that any digital asset or transaction can be inserted as a block of data (e.g. block) which are securely bound to each other using cryptography (e.g. chain), the industry does not matter. The block is made up of data, hash (A cryptographic fixed output through a mathematical algorithm from an input of any length) and previous hash. Every other member of the network is responsible for verifying the data being added to the Blockchain is real. This is done using a system of three keys (private, public, and the receiver's key) that allow members to check the veracity of the data while also confirming whom it comes from.
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Blockchain Revolution in Education and Lifelong Learning
A blockchain is like a digital ledger or record book. It's made up of a chain of blocks, where each block contains a list of transactions.
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Information Sharing for Manufacturing Supply Chain Management Based on Blockchain Technology
In simple, a blockchain is just a data structure that can be shared by different users using computing data communication network (e.g., peer-to-peer or P2P). Blockchain is a distributed data structure comprising a chain of blocks. It can act as a global ledger that maintains records of all transactions on a blockchain network. The transactions are time stamped and bundled into blocks where each block is identified by its cryptographic hash .
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Financial Technologies: Concept, Application, and Challenges
Blocks of data where each block is chained to the next through the use of hashes.
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Securing the Internet of Things Applications Using Blockchain Technology in the Manufacturing Industry
In simple, a blockchain is just a data structure that can be shared by different users using computing data communication network (e.g., peer-to-peer or P2P). Blockchain is a distributed data structure comprising a chain of blocks. It can act as a global ledger that maintains records of all transactions on a blockchain network. The transactions are time-stamped and bundled into blocks where each block is identified by its cryptographic hash .
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Automated Detection of SQL Injection Attack on Blockchain-Based Database
It is originally created by data block, which is connected as chain, where the data in the chain is consist of list of records which are inter-linked by using cryptography algorithm.
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Blockchain Technology: Applications in the Industry
A blockchain is a distributed database spread across many computers with no central control, that can transform governance, business models and the functioning of organisations. A Blockchain stores information on digital assets (representing values, identities, agreements, property rights, credentials, etc.).
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Non-Technological and Technological (SupTech) Innovations in Strengthening the Financial Supervision
A kind of distributed ledger technology. Blockchain is a type of database used for transaction recording. It is copied to all of the computers in a participating network. Data is stored in ‘blocks’ which are fixed structures.
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Blockchain Applications and Trends That Promote Information Management
Distributed database system that records and shares data and information transactions in the network.
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The Effect of Blockchain Technology in the Initial Stages of Auditor Investigation in the Halal Supply Chain
Is an open distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a way that is verifiable and permanent.
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Quantum Blockchain for Smart Society: Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities
Traditional blockchain which uses pre-quantum cryptography and not secure from quantum attacks.
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Training for the Digital Economy
As a technology is a process of continuous recording of transactions keeping them unchanged; as a database it is a decentralized storage of cryptographic information consisting of blocks.
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Establishing Governance for Hybrid Cloud and the Internet of Things
Blockchain is a peer-to-peer distributed ledger technology for a new generation of transactional applications that establishes trust, accountability and transparency while streamlining business processes. Think of it as an operating system for interactions. It has the potential to vastly reduce the cost and complexity of getting things done. The key to Blockchain is assuring data integrity and data lineage (Why Create The Project, 1 st paragraph).
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Blockchain Platform to Resolve Security Issues in IoT and Smart Networks
A blockchain platform allows users and developers to create novel uses of an existing blockchain infrastructure.
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Use of Digital Technology to Deal With COVID-19
In its most general definition, blockchain; It can be defined as a technology protocol that enables data sharing with trust-based transactions such as identification and authorization in a decentralized-distributed network environment without the need for approval or control of a central authority.
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Blockchain Arbitration: A Supply Chain Perspective
A distributed and decentralized ledger that registers transactions in an untrustworthy environment and is protected by numeric signatures and cryptographic hash functions.
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Cost-Effective Solutions Using Smart Contracts in Blockchain for Commercial Residential Midrise Building Developers and Consumers
A blockchain is a decentralized, distributed, and public digital ledger that is used to record transactions across many computers so that the record cannot be altered retroactively without the alteration of all subsequent blocks and the consensus of the network.
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Pattern-Based Cloud Migration: Take Blockchain as a Service as an Example
A continuously growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked and secured using cryptography. Each block typically contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data.
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Smart Metering Systems: A Blockchain Application for Sustainable Procurement
A ledger filled with a time-stamped series of immutable data records managed by a cluster of servers not normally owned by any single entity. Each of these blocks of data is secured and bound to each other using cryptography. The primary distinction between the public and private blockchains is that private blockchains control who can participate in the network, execute the consensus protocol that decides the mining rights and rewards, and maintain the shared ledger.
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Cryptocurrency: A Detailed Study
Blockchain is a shared, unchangeable database for documenting and monitoring transactions in a corporate network.
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Recent and Emerging Technologies in Industrial IoT
A blockchain is “a distributed database that maintains a continuously growing list of ordered records, called blocks.” These blocks are linked using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data.
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Legal Risks and Challenges Related to Virtual Currencies
A specific type of distributed ledgers, which are usually public databases spread across multiple sites.
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Reflection of Digital Transformation on Corporate Sustainability and a Theoratical Perspective
With this system, it is possible to create, approve, cryptographically block every data; thus to prevent algorithms created to be solved by human hand irrevocably. With the blockchain created with adding datas in every block to each other, every transaction is saved and can not be deleted.
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Investigating the Factors, Challenges, and Role of Stakeholders in Implementing Industry 5.0 and Its Impact on Supply Chain Operations: A Study of the Global Agri-Food Supply Chain
A blockchain is a distributed ledger of digital transactions, which is maintained by multiple computers that is not reliant on third party (Kamilaris et al., 2019 AU140: The in-text citation "Kamilaris et al., 2019" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ).
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The Vision of Freedom and the Potential of Blockchain
Blockchain is a decentralized digital ledger technology that connects transaction records into a chain of blocks, preventing tampering or fraud. Its immutability makes it highly reliable and does not require a centralized system. While it is well known for its use in cryptocurrency transactions, it is expected to be applied in various fields. Please refer to section 5 of this chapter for details.
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Advancing Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Cybersecurity for the Internet of Things
It is a growing list of blocks that are linked using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data. A blockchain is resistant to modification of its data. It is primarily used in cryptocurrencies, most notably bitcoin.
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New Financial Technologies, Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain, and Challenges
Technology: It is a decentralized, distributed and public digital ledger technology that is used to record transactions across many computers so that any involved record cannot be altered retroactively, without the alteration of all subsequent blocks.
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Application of Blockchain Technology for Distributed Management of Digital Research Library Holdings
A blockchain is a network system that execute transactions among connected nodes using high level security.
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Overcoming MSME Challenges With Blockchain
A chain of blocks represents a database that is shared across a network of computers. It is extremely difficult to alter a record after it has been put to the chain.
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Research Trends in Information Systems From the Management Discipline Based on Co-Occurrence Analysis
Is a system in which a record of different types of interactions (commercial or not) made in a chain and cryptographically signed are managed through a peer-to-peer network. It allows information to be transferred under highly secure standards, and with validation at each step.
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Beyond the Pandemic: Survival of the Human Race and Challenges
Blockchain is nothing but a way to store data in a decentralized manner. The term decentralization means without any central authority. In a blockchain, data is stored in groups called blocks. Whenever new information is obtained, it will be linked to the unceasing chain.
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The Insider Threat Landscape and the FinTech Sector: Attacks, Defenses, and Emerging Challenges
A distributed ledger that maintains records of digital transactions (e.g., money transfer events, sale or service events, etc.) using a peer-to-peer network of user machines rather than relying on a central authority or server, and which uses cryptography for security.
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