TY - CHAP
T1 - Blockchain in a Nutshell
AU - Tran, Duc A.
AU - Krishnamachari, Bhaskar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Blockchain enables a digital society where people can contribute, collaborate, and transact without having to second-guess trust and transparency. It is the technology behind the success of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many disruptive applications and platforms that have positive impact in numerous sectors, including finance, education, health care, environment, transportation, and philanthropy, to name a few. This chapter provides a friendly description of essential concepts, mathematics, and algorithms that lay the foundation for blockchain technology.
AB - Blockchain enables a digital society where people can contribute, collaborate, and transact without having to second-guess trust and transparency. It is the technology behind the success of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many disruptive applications and platforms that have positive impact in numerous sectors, including finance, education, health care, environment, transportation, and philanthropy, to name a few. This chapter provides a friendly description of essential concepts, mathematics, and algorithms that lay the foundation for blockchain technology.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85141702759
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85141702759#tab=citedBy
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-07535-3_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-07535-3_1
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85141702759
T3 - Springer Optimization and Its Applications
SP - 3
EP - 54
BT - Springer Optimization and Its Applications
PB - Springer
ER -