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Blockchain Technology: Transforming Libertarian Cryptocurrency Dreams to Finance and Banking Realities

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COMPUTER
Volume 50, Issue 9, Pages 38-49

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IEEE COMPUTER SOC
DOI: 10.1109/MC.2017.3571042

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The financial technology (FinTech) sector sees high potential value in cryptocurrency blockchain protocols, or distributed-ledger technology (DLT). However, the requirements and guarantees of blockchains for cryptocurrencies do not match those of FinTech-from transaction throughput to security primitives and privacy. The author explores how blockchain research beyond Bitcoin is closing these gaps and some of the challenges that remain.

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