Blockchain is creating many opportunities for business as it is transforming the way sustaining technologies operate in organizations. In blockchain, transactions are recorded as digital blocks and contain immutable properties to preserve data validation, encryption, and algorithms. The goal is...

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: The Blockchain: a Tool for Non-centralization and Disintermediation -- Introduction to Part 1 -- 1. Non-centralized Architecture -- 1.1. Certified timestamping of transactions, operations, and events...

In this article, we explore the formidable yet untapped capabilities of Blockchain technology and Bitcoin in order to alleviate poverty. We focus on the Republic of Moldova, which has been plagued by endemic corruption and persistently high poverty levels since her Independence in 1991 following...