Using Google's Search Volume Index as a proxy for retail investor attention, we find that initial coin offerings (ICOs), celebrity endorsements of crypto tokens, crypto platforms promising high yields to investors, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) generate greater attention from regions with...

Blockchain systems allow for securely keeping shared records of transactions in a decentralized way. This is enabled by consensus mechanisms. Proof-of-work is the most prominent consensus mechanism but has major shortcomings. In this paper, we focus on proof-of-stake, its best-known alternative....

Satoshi Nakamoto invented a new form of trust. This paper presents a three equation argument that Nakamoto’s new form of trust, while undeniably ingenious, is extremely expensive: the recurring, 'flow' payments to the anonymous, decentralized compute power that maintains the trust must be...

Digital blockchain is an assessment parameter that will encompass computational strategies to assess the issue of how to recognize the integrity of Smart surveillance information for a resilient city. Smart surveillance in resilient cities gives spatiotemporally-based representation as of the...

Blockchain consensus is a state whereby each node in a network agrees on the current state of the blockchain. Existing protocols achieve consensus via a contest or voting procedure to select one node as a dictator to propose new blocks. However, this procedure can still lead to potential attacks...

Bitcoin introduces a new type of digital currency that does not rely on a central system to process and maintain transactions. Benefiting from the concept of a decentralized ledger, users who do not know or trust each other can still conduct transactions in a peer-to-peer manner. Recently,...

To elucidate the case for facilitating energy trading within peer-to-peer marketplaces, this paper proposes a new mechanism for forward selling renewable electricity generation. In this framework, a wind farm directly sells consumers a claim on their future generation in the form of a blockchain...

Blockchain Technology is the emerging component of IT and Computing and is a kind of encrypted record of data works on distributed database. This is furthermore dealt with the data related to the transaction, contract, independent record, etc. Digital ledger is important and also applicable in...

In equity trading, internalization is the predominant execution method for uninformed order flow, allowing retail brokers to realize cost savings and thereby offer price improvements to customers. In cryptocurrency trading, there are doubts as to whether informed and uninformed traders can be...