While blockchain technology is commonly considered potentially disruptive in various
regards, there is a lack of understanding where and how blockchain technology is effectively …

The synthesis of technology and finance is known as financial technology (Fintech), which
brings together two of the biggest industries in harmony. Fintech disruption is a deviation …

Consensus is a fundamental problem of distributed computing. While this problem has been
known to be unsolvable since 1985, existing protocols were designed these past three …

Blockchain has drawn attention as the next-generation financial technology due to its
security that suits the informatization era. In particular, it provides security through the …

Bitcoin introduced delegation of control over a monetary system from a select few to all who
participate in that system. This delegation is known as the decentralization of controlling …

Mobile Crowdsourcing (MCS) is an effective and novel method of data collection and
processing. Current MCS generally adopts a centralized architecture by depending on an …

Cryptocurrencies often tend to maintain a publically accessible ledger of all transactions.
This open nature of the transactional ledger allows us to gain macroeconomic insight into …

Forensic investigations increasingly leverage artificial intelligence (AI/ML) to identify illegal
activities on bitcoin. bitcoin transactions have an original graph (network) structure, which is …

Recent studies have found that investors move from fiat currencies to Bitcoin cryptocurrency
in environments with low trust and high uncertainty. This paper investigates the reaction of …

The advancements in the fields of IT and robotics are provoking the fourth industrial
revolution and transforming our economy toward the machine economy. Billions of …