Abstract
The financial technology (FinTech) sector sees high potential value in cryptocurrency blockchain protocols, or distributed-ledger technology (DLT). However, the requirements and guarantees of blockchains for cryptocurrencies do not match those of FinTech-from transaction throughput to security primitives and privacy. The author explores how blockchain research beyond Bitcoin is closing these gaps and some of the challenges that remain.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages | 38-49 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Volume | 50 |
| No | 9 |
| Specialist publication | Computer |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2017 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Bitcoin
- Bitcoin Next Generation
- Corda
- DAO
- DLT
- Ethereum
- Hyperledger
- Solidus
- Spectre
- blockchain
- consensus protocol
- cryptocurrency
- decentralized autonomous organization
- distributed-ledger technology
- financial technology
- privacy
- proof of elapsed time
- proof of stake
- proof of work
- security
- smart contract
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Computer Science
