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Inside Blockchain and Bitcoin

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Blockchain and Bitcoin have both become a very important topic in academia as well as in the economic world. This is due to the main characteristics of this system: transparency, anonymity, security, and low transactional costs. This paper studies the blockchain network, with special attention to Bitcoin. Its uses, advantages, and challenges are all presented, with special focus in instability and volatility, trust and security, cyberattacks, and hacking as well as illegal activities. Within the conclusion, the main future research trends are also analyzed.

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  1. Business Management, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain

    Simon Fernandez-Vazquez, Rafael Rosillo, Paolo Priore, Isabel Fernandez, Alberto Gomez & Jose Parreño

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

    Hamid R. Arabnia

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

    Ken Ferens

  3. Business Administration, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain

    David de la Fuente

  4. Institute of Informatics Problems, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    Elena B. Kozerenko

  5. Technology and Information systems, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Ciudad Real, Spain

    José Angel Olivas Varela

  6. Facultad de Informática - CIC PBA, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina

    Fernando G. Tinetti

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Fernandez-Vazquez, S., Rosillo, R., Priore, P., Fernandez, I., Gomez, A., Parreño, J. (2021). Inside Blockchain and Bitcoin. In: Arabnia, H.R., Ferens, K., de la Fuente, D., Kozerenko, E.B., Olivas Varela, J.A., Tinetti, F.G. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applied Cognitive Computing. Transactions on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70296-0_72

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