Search Results - subject:"distributed ledger technology"

Trust, Anarcho-Capitalism, Blockchain and Initial Coin Offerings

Flood, John - 2018

Blockchain - distributed ledger technology - is seen as heralding what some call the internet of trust because it … blockchain community has developed distributed ledger technology these basic philosophical tensions have surfaced causing …

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Blockchain and the Future of Optimal Financing Contracts

Tinn, Katrin - 2018

Blockchain technology makes it possible to create immutable smart contracts that are based on reliable and timestamped records of transactions. These new features imply that contracts for raising external financing could now depend on when, and not just on whether, positive cash flows occur....

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Blockchain-Based Token Sales, Initial Coin Offerings, and the Democratization of Public Capital Markets

Rohr, Jonathan - 2018

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Can Blockchain Improve Healthcare Management? Consumer Medical Electronics and the IoMT

Pilkington, Marc - 2018

We set out to examine the relevance of blockchain technology for healthcare management in general, and for consumer medical electronics and the portable devices connected in particular. After considering the shortcomings of private and centralized organizations for access to patient data in a...

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The Distributed Liability of Distributed Ledgers : Legal Risks of Blockchain

Zetzsche, Dirk A. - 2018

The transformative potential of distributed ledger technology, especially in the financial sector, is attracting …

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Blockchain, Securities Markets and Central Banking

Seretakis, Alexandros L. - 2018

Distributed ledger technology, a variant of which is blockchain technology, represents one of the most important … widespread adoption of distributed ledger technology as envisioned by its ardent supporters encounters considerable legal … financial crisis. The present paper will seek to disentangle the myths from the realities of the so-called distributed ledger …

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Taxonomy of Blockchain Technologies. Principles of Identification and Classification

Tasca, Paolo - 2018

A comparative study across the most widely known blockchain technologies is conducted with a bottom-up approach. Blockchains are disentangled into building blocks. Each building block is then hierarchically classified in main and subcomponents. Then, alternative layouts for the subcomponents are...

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Developing Renewable Energy Credits as Cryptocurrency on Ethereum's Blockchain

Leonhard, Robert - 2018

The blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize the legal and financial industries. With the development of Ethereum, blockchain technology can be inexpensively implemented as an efficient way to create, transfer, and authenticate Renewable Energy Credits in order to avoid waste,...

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Trust, But Verify : Why the Blockchain Needs the Law

Werbach, Kevin - 2018

The blockchain could be the most consequential development in information technology since the internet. Created to support the Bitcoin digital currency, the blockchain is actually something deeper: A novel solution to the age-old human problem of trust. Its potential is extraordinary. Yet...

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Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Distributed Ledgers : Between Hype and Reality

Ametrano, Ferdinando M. - 2018

, the hype about distributed ledger technology is assessed, evaluating its actual potential and relevance: it is exposed as …

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