The fundamental problem in digital record-keeping is establishing consensus on an update to a ledger, e.g., a payment. Consensus must be achieved in the presence of faults—situations in which some computers are offline or fail to function appropriately. Traditional centralized record-keeping...

Technological acclimatization in today’s healthcare industry is a subject of new inventions. The worldwide Covid-19 epidemic has led to increase in the use of technology for healthcare supply chain, patient data management, and claims settlement. Data management in the healthcare industry is a...

Utility tokens are digital currencies that serve as the only accepted means of payment for services and products provided through a blockchain-based platform. They finance the development of their product or service, reward and incentivize early adopters and network promoters, align economic...

The rapidly increasing power of digital infrastructures to shape social action has fueled a growing body of research on the multifaceted relationship between digital technology and governance. The emergence of blockchain as a form of digital infrastructure centrally concerned with governance and...

In this paper, we evaluate the economic value of a blockchain application. In the context of asset-backed securities (ABS) issuance in China, where some ABS are issued with blockchain technology and others are not, we find that the use of blockchain significantly reduces the coupon yield at...

Significant business growth is the result of innovations in their process and product, which is made possible by the use of high technologies such as blockchain. Technology has a huge impact on the world, not just through social media, big data, robotics and artificial intelligence, but these...

Many standards exist today for corporate Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions accounting, yet a mechanism for transferring emissions reductions between companies in a supply chain is not well defined. This creates a serious gap for incentivizing businesses to take climate action when there is a...

Quantum computers are expected to reduce the security of current cryptographic systems. One technology that relies on these cryptographic systems is the blockchain. For companies adopting blockchain-based solutions, quantum computing therefore poses a risk that needs to be considered in...

This paper will address blockchain and cryptocurrency’s ethical issues, the stakeholders involved, the impact of the ethical issues, the various viewpoints surrounding the issues, why these topics are important in Information technology, and the ideal outcomes of these issues in the future....

For the past twenty years, the use of the Internet has facilitated international commercial relations between people who do not know each other and who are geographically distant. Disputes resulting from e-commerce have undermined the supremacy of state courts, which have proved unable to...