Blockchain temporality: Smart contract time specifiability with blocktime

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 9718, Issue , 2016, Pages 184-196

  Swan, Melanie ^a  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithmic trust; Bitcoin; Blockchain; Byzantine agreement; Cryptocurrency; Decentralization; Distributed computing; Information theory; Network computing; Temporality

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; ELECTRONIC MONEY; INFORMATION THEORY;

ALGORITHMIC TRUST; BITCOIN; BLOCK-CHAIN; BYZANTINE AGREEMENT; DECENTRALIZATION; NETWORK COMPUTING; TEMPORALITY;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84979043551     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-42019-6_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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