Technical Fundamentals of Blockchain Systems
- This work provides a short but technical introduction to the main building blocks of a blockchain. It argues that a blockchain is not a revolutionary technology but rather a clever combination of three fields: cryptography, decentralization and game theory. In addition, it summaries the differences between a public, private and federate blockchain model and the two prominent consensus mechanism Proof-of-Work (POW) and Proof-of-Stake (POS).
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| Document Type: | Report |
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| Language: | English |
| Author: | Oliver Kattwinkel, Michael Rademacher |
| Number of pages: | 10 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96043-081-0 |
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-50059 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.18418/978-3-96043-081-0 |
| Publishing Institution: | Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg |
| Date of first publication: | 2020/07/29 |
| Series (Volume): | BRSU Communication Report (Nr. 1) |
| Keywords: | Blockchain; Cryptography; Proof-of-Stake; Proof-of-Work |
| Departments, institutes and facilities: | Fachbereich Informatik |
| Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC): | 0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik |
| Series: | BRSU Communication Report |
| Entry in this database: | 2020/07/29 |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
