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Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology Applications
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Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology Applications

by Gulshan Shrivastava, Dac-Nhuong Le, Kavita Sharma
June 2020
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
11h 8m
English
Wiley-Scrivener
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CHAPTER 10IMPACT OF APPLICATION OF BIG DATA ON CRYPTOCURRENCY

Sandeep Kr. Sharma,1 Rajiv Kumar Modanval,2 N. Gayathri,2 S. Rakesh Kumar2 and C. Ramesh1

1 Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, India

2 Galgotias University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradeshâ^, India

AbstractThe popularity of cryptocurrency lies in its colossal applications and technologically advanced architecture. Cryptocurrency uses blockchain technology which replaces the traditional cryptographic methods. Although there is still a lot of research going on to find its applicability in various other domains, in this chapter we will discuss the workings of cryptocurrency with its key applications in big data and its impact on it. The world is heading towards the information age where “data is the new gold” and with this rapid production of diverse data, its processing and management becomes chaotic. Thus, big data technology comes in handy that is effective enough to deal with such humongous data (from its processing till its storage), after which there is a dire need for security which can be easily handled by blockchain. Blockchain, whose architecture was designed to address some of the primary concerns like decentralization, privacy, identity, trust and ownership of data and its unique architecture provides some superior features that can effectively manage those concerns. This chapter provides an outlook on big data and blockchain individually from viewpoints of various situations in which both ...

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