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The world of digital currencies is becoming popular day by day. A cryptocurrency is a digital or virtual currency that uses cryptography for security. It is a decentralized currency as it operates without a single administrator; the transactions take place directly between the users and intermediaries. Bitcoin is a distinct mode of exchange when compared to usual banks. The prices of bitcoins are volatile i.e. they can unpredictably increase or decrease over a period of time. Bitcoins are considered high-risk assets whose transactions can only be refunded and not reversed. The bitcoin came into existence in January 2009, with Satoshi Nakamoto mining the first block of bitcoins ever. Since then, a number of supporters engaged in transactions and received bitcoins. Countries around the world started accepting bitcoin as a legitimate way of currency. However, India hasn't legalized the use of Bitcoins due to a number of reasons. The objective of this paper is the comparative study between bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
2020, [Preprint] EASE2020
Corruption is a major global financial problem with billions of dollars rendered lost or unaccountable annually. Corruption through contract fraud is often conducted by withholding and/or altering financial information. When such scandals are investigated by authorities, financial and legal documents are usually altered to conceal the paper trail. Smart contracts have emerged in recent years and appear promising for applications such as legal contracts where transparency is critical and of public interest. Transparency and auditability are inherent because smart contracts execute operations on the blockchain, a distributed public ledger. In this paper, we propose the Minimum Hybrid Contract (MHC), with the aim of introducing 1) auditability, 2) transparency, and 3) immutabil-ity to the contract's financial transactions. The MHC comprises an online smart contract and an o✏ine traditional legal contract. where the two are immutably linked. Secure peer-to-peer financial transactions, transparency, and cost accounting are automated by the smart contract, and legal issues or disputes are carried out by civil courts. The reliance on established legal processes facilitates an appropriate adoption of smart contracts in traditional contracts .
2018, Global Journal of Enterprise Information System
The blockchain, the technological innovation reinforcement the recognizable cryptocurrencies bitcoin, is progressively more the subject of academic and public question. In present circumstances it had become buzzword in a future too. Blockchain technology, first functional in the blueprint of Bitcoin in 2008, emerged from a movement of anarchists, computer scientists and crypto aficionado who aphorism the impending of the technology as a breakthrough in the long anticipated apprehension of an old “cypherpunk” dream of money that is free from the control of the state which also in a judicial language considered as a legal tender and other third parties, such as commercial banks. The main aim of the research is to elucidate the concept of blockchain in a holistic manner vis-à-vis peer-to-peer network management by taking into consideration Internet of Thing (IoT), cryptocurrencies and bitcoin, positive etc. The study also highlights the impact of blockchain in a management perspectives. The paper also demonstrates how blockchain management with IoT will offer opportunities to the organizations and how it will impact their future competitiveness and market share and it exhibits various other issues relating to blockchain.
2019, jQrgenCrop
Having identified contracts as the nexus of corruption, I sought to find how contracts, blockchain smart contracts, and financial regulations can be used to make them both secure, accountable, transparent, and inclusive. Then I explored how corruption in a contractual relationship could be mitigated, using the term Minimum Hybrid Contract (MHC) which I coined, where a smart contract is a supplement to a legal contract providing transparency and immutability to the contract’s financial transactions, privacy is accepted as a human need and total transparency must be avoided. The extensive literature review on blockchain explains its key features for financial transaction; transparency and immutability. Blockchain smart contracts can interplay with, or replace legal contract, and mitigate agency theory issues which increases trust in the principal-agent relationship. The MHC is an evolutionary change proposition to ensure stability because it leaves the legal contract as it provides a smart contract as a supplemental transactional tool. To implement the MHC architecture in a legislation cryptocurrencies are required for the blockchain smart contract to work. Because there is regulatory uncertainty around cryptocurrencies whereas they are illegal in several countries, regulatory strategies such as sandboxes and safe harbors giving regulatory slack and closer collaboration with innovators to ensure financial stability while searching for the optimal regulation is an elaboration on the design of the MHC. Key agency theory issues are be mitigated significantly when blockchain smart contract’s transparent, open, and immutable properties are leveraged in financial transactions. Information sharing increases when using blockchain because a receipt for a financial transactions is indistinguishable from the transaction itself, thus the MHC provides a deterrent against financial crime by removing the opportunity of conducting receipt fraud. Moreover, the MHC mitigates moral hazard because auditing the immutable and transparent blockchain-based transactions does not require trust in the auditor because the process can be automated by automatically reading data from the blockchain smart contract. Thus agency costs are also reduced as the monitoring costs of financial transactions are reduced, and blockchain smart contracts replace auditors.
2018, Multitudes
Official translation of Guillaume Helleu and Anthony Masure's 2018 article entitled «Total Record. Les protocoles blockchain face au post-capitalisme.» Abstract: The Bitcoin Protocol (2009) marked an extension of the utopias envisioned by the Crypto-Anarchists with the development of a secure and distributed online digital currency designed to escape the centralization of power by banks and governments. Hijacked [récupérée] in large part from speculative finance, these technologies, 'chains of blocks' (the blockchain), were progressive developments that widely surpassed applications in the traditional monetary field (distributed applications, smart contracts, tokens of value, etc.). Despite the persistence of certain social and technical breaking points, can the blockchain protocol work with, and even speed up, the destructive logic of contemporary finance capitalism? 1. [Originally published "Total Record: Les protocoles blockchain face au post-capitalisme," in Multitudes 71 (2018/2), 70-79. DOI: mult.071.0070]
2018
This paper continues the work established by others in the research field observing the behaviour of investors in the cryptocurrency market. Through a thorough review of the related literature, the paper will propose no new impeccable evidence but highlight the mountain of circumstantial ones. The paper offers a detailed technical background and an overview of the related behavioural literature. Policy implications and regulations are also briefly discussed.
2017, Texila International Journal of Academic Research
Adoption of Cryptocurrency has grown significantly over the time and becoming more popular among young generation. People are calling it currency of new digital era. In this research work we are reviewing the dominant Cryptocurrency systems and its underlying disruptive Innovations and Technologies.
Technological developments that accelerated in the 21st century, while providing great positive contributions to societies, bring with them some problems. Especially the using of technological opportunities in the crime world is a new threat to public security. DEASH "ad-Dawlah al-Islamiyah fil-Iraq wa ash-Sham" (using term "ISIS" the acronym "Islamic State of Iraq and Sham" is not correct because each terrorist organization is named according to their local language (PKK, ETA, IRA etc.) terrorist organization is actively using financial and visual tools of the Internet for the financing of terrorism in cyberspace. In this study, it is explained how the blockchain technology and Bitcoin used by DEASH terrorist organization have been used in recent years with sample cases.
2020, International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT)
https://www.ijert.org/implementation-of-blockchain-on-criminality-record-checker https://www.ijert.org/research/implementation-of-blockchain-on-criminality-record-checker-IJERTV9IS040632.pdf In the current scenario, the demand for computerization and data security has been increasing to combat with the increasing rate of crimes in the society. In the existing solution for prison management system there exist substantive data symmetry among prisons. Thus, during access of any prisoner detail, system may provide inappropriate details. Our objective is to implement a novel approach that stores the prisoner's credentials and efficiently verifies the prisoner's credentials via the blockchain technology. Our proposed solution is implements in the Hyperledger framework and the experimental result shows that our proposed solution is beneficial for the existing and upcoming investigation department.
2018, Conference: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC) At: Stuttgart, Germany
Blockchain, the underlying technology that powers cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, is gaining so much attention from different industry stakeholders, governments and research communities. Its application is extending beyond cryptocurrencies and has been exploited in different domains such as finance, E-commerce, Internet of Things (IoT), healthcare, and governance. Some key attributes of the technology are decentralization, immutability, security and transparency. This paper aims to describe how permissioned Blockchain can be applied to a specific educational use case-decentralized verification of academic credentials. The proposed Blockchain-based solution, named 'CredenceLedger', is a system that stores compact data proofs of digital academic credentials in Blockchain ledger that are easily verifiable for education stakeholders and interested third party organizations.
This thesis was performed with one main goal in mind: Define a framework for ITsecurity research with blockchain protocols and based on this, enable unified security testing. This thesis defines an open categorization methodology for blockchain technology. This categorization is based upon three primitives: Transaction Design, Consensus Design and Block Design. At first these design primitives are used to derive the blockchain theory from other computer science fields, see section 2. In a next step subcategories are defined for each design primitive, which are used to characterize four different blockchain protocols, see section 3. In section 4, different protocol vectors are presented and mapped upon the characteristics of the protocols, so that one can easily understand why which attack vector works for which protocol. This is supposed to set a framework for future security research in the blockchain sphere.
2019, PhD Thesis
Blockchain technology is, in part, a proposal to resolve ‘the political’ through technical means: decentralised networks to solve the problem of authority; cryptography to coordinate and secure the network; and game theory and incentive design to solve network behaviour. This PhD thesis draws on theoretical work by Karen Barad (2007) and Jacques Rancière (Rancière, 2010) to ask the question of what matters politically in blockchain technology – both in the sense of matter as becoming material of a new mediation of the political, but also mattering in the sense of being of political importance to engineers, developers and communities forming around blockchain as a potential. Rather than treating blockchain as coherent thing to be either celebrated or criticised, this thesis proposes and attempts to draw out the ways in which the potentials of blockchain are negotiated as part of its political effects, looking towards these negotiations to understand how political differences are made and sought materialised. Three approaches to the political are articulated to analyse Bitcoin and Ethereum as case studies and shift their terms of debate. Firstly, addressing the question of algorithmic determinacy, an approach is proposed for critically understanding a blockchain proposition that does not immediately revert to a competition of control between ‘human’ and ‘machine’ through the notion of the insensible, drawing on work by geographer of the inhuman Yusoff (2013a). Secondly, drawing on political theorist Rancière (2010) a particular blockchain sensibility is articulated, addressing the question of the particular kind of ‘disruption’ that blockchain presents. Its specific provenance in political histories of decentralised network computation opens up political significance beyond its intersections with financial capitalism. Finally, addressing the question of blockchain as a resolution to the political, the thesis introduces the concept of dissensible as an ongoing potential for incompatible sensibilities and their negotiation.
Cryptocurrencies have emerged as an important financial software system. These cryptocur-rencies are generated by a process called mining. Mining is an integral process that not only creates the currency but also, adds records of past transactions to the distributed ledger known as blockchain. The use of blockhain and cryptography, enables security in the environment and makes it robust in nature. Since, cryptocurrencies are designed using a peer-to-peer system, they aren't centrally owned by anyone. The peer-to-peer version allows the digital signature to be a part of the solution, this reduces the need for third party authentication. for the mining of such digital currency, we have to rely on miners to validate the currency and it's creation. for the proof of work each network timestamps the transactions that occur by hashing them into an ongoing chain of hash-based proof-of-work, forming a record that cannot be changes without redoing the proof of work. The longest chain serves as proof of the fact that it came from the largest pool of CPU power. As long as majority of the CPU power is controlled by nodes that do not cooperate with the attack network, it will generate a large chain that will space out all hackers and attackers. Here we discuss the dierent mining processes for a variety of cryptocurrencies. The importance of blockchain and its use in securing the environment, along with the various hardware issues that miners may face are discussed. The strengths and weaknesses of using various cryptocurrencies are outlined.
Blockchains combine digital encryption and time stamping technologies to enable digital exchange to occur in manners celebrated by proponents as a 'trust-free'. Yet, an increasing range of scholars argues that actual applications of the peer-to-peer technology shifts rather than eliminates trust. This article draws on organizational theory in arguing that efforts to remove trust reorganize action nets underpinning payment systems in manners that extend rather than eliminate longstanding pathologies afflicting financial globalization. Our analysis supports and extends critiques that blockchain applications are far from 'trust-free' by tracing how efforts to reconfigure the socio-technical composition of humans and objects underpinning payment systems shift the location and character of technical vulnerabilities contributing to market instabilities and concentration, as well as elite-led governance.
The existence of cryptocurrency has attracted controvercies world wide. Many people, including Indonesian, had benefit from cryptocurrency, meanwhile there were also more people suffered lost from "investment" in cryptocurrency. The aim of this research was to make clear the legal status of cryptocurrency in Indonesia. This research was a normative legal research. It conducted literature review to obtain the required data. Data obtained and used in this research were secondary data, which consisted of primary, secondary and tertiary legal documents. Data obtained from literature review were analysed using normative comparative method with qualitative approach. The result proved that as currency, the existence of cryptocurrency for payment was legally prohibited. The involvement of Indonesian citizen in the "investment" in form of crytocurrency can be treated as against public policy even though the issuance of such cryptocurrency was subject to foreign applicable laws.
2018, RCD
Since 2009, blockchain has served as a potentially transformative record technology that is expected to be as revolutionary as the Internet. Originally developed as a methodology for registering cryptocurrency transactions, Blockchain's functionality has evolved into a large number of applications, such as banking, financial markets, accounting, supply chains, voting systems and government services. This document aims to explain blockchain technology while providing an initial discussion on how this innovation could allow a real-time, verifiable and transparent business ecosystem. In addition, blockchain has the potential to create digital companies through intelligent contracts that allow automation and democratization of decision making. Clasificación JEL: O33
As internet users become subjected to stricter and more developed means of surveillance and censorship, the developments towards a decentralised version of the network move forwards by providing functional and scalable alternatives. These blockchain inventions are definitely marvelous from the perspective of engineering and cryptography, but they raise important questions about legitimacy and governance. By employing qualitative data analysis and comparisons, this paper aims to present the current state of the internet, explain the origins and nature of the blockchain as the underlying source of immutable decentralisation, and ultimately ask the question " What are the possible solutions to create a truly decentralised internet which makes use of all the new technological advancements but is simultaneously accountable to national, transnational, and international polities? ". According to the findings, a framework of trust, collaboration and consensus must be established between those who govern and those who are governed, as new cryptographic innovations are led by autonomous " law is code " systems.
—Bitcoin has emerged as the most successful cryptographic currency in history. Within two years of its quiet launch in 2009, Bitcoin grew to comprise billions of dollars of economic value despite only cursory analysis of the system's design. Since then a growing literature has identified hidden-but-important properties of the system, discovered attacks, proposed promising alternatives, and singled out difficult future challenges. Meanwhile a large and vibrant open-source community has proposed and deployed numerous modifications and extensions. We provide the first systematic exposition Bitcoin and the many related cryptocurrencies or 'altcoins.' Drawing from a scattered body of knowledge, we identify three key components of Bitcoin's design that can be decoupled. This enables a more insightful analysis of Bitcoin's properties and future stability. We map the design space for numerous proposed modifications , providing comparative analyses for alternative consensus mechanisms, currency allocation mechanisms, computational puzzles, and key management tools. We survey anonymity issues in Bitcoin and provide an evaluation framework for analyzing a variety of privacy-enhancing proposals. Finally we provide new insights on what we term disintermediation protocols, which absolve the need for trusted intermediaries in an interesting set of applications. We identify three general disintermediation strategies and provide a detailed comparison.
2017, Danilo Hage Canteruccio
The hypothesis of a free circulation of money and of bank accountancy would make them as more reliable and government-centric currencies raised by the Austrian economist Friedrich August von Hayek about the privatization of money in the face of the recent emergence of the market for cryptomoedas, which are available in their weights, despite in a still probative state. To do so, it will reassess the concept of money through the analysis of brand formation and as monetary weights of the knowledge school. The historical context of the Hayekian thesis will be analyzed, as well as the mainstream monetary theory and the view of other diverse aspects, besides proposing a version of the current context of monetary theories and showing The example of a presentation of hypotheses, besides showing as recurrent modifications of the implementation of the customs of the economies and the society in general.
2020, CRIPTOMOEDAS, CRIPTOCRIME E CRIPTOINVESTIGAÇÃO
RESUMO As criptomoedas, chamados por alguns de criptoativos, estão cada vez mais presentes nas relações sociais e consequentemente nas práticas criminosas. Não necessariamente atreladas a crimes cibernéticos, que demandam alto grau de especialização por parte de investigadores, estão também conectadas a crimes patrimoniais, contra a pessoa, contra a honra e assim por diante. Num caso ou no outro, urge a necessidade da padronização dessas investigações, assim como melhor capacitação da Polícia Judiciária brasileira, proporcinando repressão eficiente e uniforme em todo o país. Palavras-chave: Criptomoedas, criptocrime, criptoinvestigação, crime cibernético, investigação policial, blockchain. INTRODUÇÃO A investigação criminal contemporânea deve acompanhar tendências e estar sempre lateralizada às novas tecnologias, pois se o crime é assim, sua repressão também o deve ser. A existência de criptomoedas no iter criminis causa espanto a investigadores mais tradicionais e representa verdadeira barreira no avanço para a solução de crimes. Apontamos aqui a extrema necessidade de melhor capacitação das polícias brasileiras. Não para a criação de milhares de especialistas em crimes relacionados direta ou indiretamente a criptomoedas, mas para que a simples menção ao termo não seja vista como barreira instransponível na coleta de provas para determinação de materialidade e autoria delitiva. Válido frisar que a anonimização relacionada à utilização de criptomoedas é um tanto relativa. O investigador mais atento e com conhecimento basilar no campo cibernético pode galgar grandes avanços nas investigações relacionadas ao tema com exponencial taxa de sucesso na resolução de crimes. Seria por demais pretensiosismo suscitar o esgotamento do tema neste artigo. O objetivo recai na demonstração da importância e necessidade de adequação de técnicas investigativas e da legislação
2019, Latin American Law Review
The rise of cryptocurrencies in Argentina and Venezuela in recent years shows how a highly distressed economy could become fertile ground for decentralized digital currency. This article analyzes similar traits between these two nations and examines why a collateral result of high inflation, tangled monetary regulation, and political instability could be the rapid growth of cryptocurrencies that are not linked to a central bank. Mistrust in central government authorities and national currency volatility that surpasses that of traded cryptocurrencies open a window for intangible ways of storing the falling value of local fiat currency. This article sets a general framework through which to understand the growth of decentralized cryptocurrencies in developing economies and continues to explain the rise of such technology in recent times in Argentina and Venezuela.
2019, New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences
The existence of cryptocurrency a decade ago is an inescapable reality that at the moment generates a high financial influence at global level, the fact that obliges us to know and to study them. Our questions are essentially at three levels: their acceptance, or not, by the States in the face of the paper-money issued by their Central Banks and how the Private Banks react to this virtual currency created in particular; what actions have Tax Administrations at the global level faced with the wealth they generate and the financial values that move in the real economy. Our study is based on the doctrine that already exists, but mainly financial reports produced by central banks and private banking as well as by tax administrations. Finally, we present our conclusions on the current state of analysis and financial studies of the banking system and tax administrations and, of course, our opinion.
O objetivo do presente artigo, que se utilizou do método indutivo e da pesquisa bibliográfica e documental, é descrever, de forma analítica, porém sucinta, tanto o funcionamento do mais utilizado sistema de criptomoedas da atualidade, o Bitcoin, quanto algumas das principais questões jurídicas que envolvem o tema, notadamente os desafios na tentativa de sua regulamentação.