Chapter 5: Blockchain types: A characteristic view

Rajat Verma; Namrata Dhanda    Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract

Blockchain became the buzzword when it gave a security boost to the cryptocurrency Bitcoin in 2008. Since then, blockchain has taken a leap from the era of Bitcoin emergence to the phase belonging to applications era. Since blockchain has evolved itself in the last 15 years, the usage of blockchain has also become unique. Diverse blockchains are available in the structures of the market to provide configurational comfortability to the end user. The decentralized peer-to-peer technology blockchain has so much to offer to the complete system with ...

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