Machine Learning for Edge Computing

6Various Techniques for the Consensus Mechanism in Blockchain

Shivani Wadhwa and Gagandeep

Department of Computer Science,

Punjabi University

Punjab, India

DOI: 10.1201/​9781003143468-6

CONTENTS

• 6.1Introduction
• 6.2Types of Blockchain
• 6.3Characteristics of Blockchain
• 6.4Applications of Blockchain
• 6.5Related Work
• 6.6Structure of Block
• 6.7Blockchain Computation
• 6.8Various Platforms for the Computation of Block
• 6.9Issues and Challenges
• 6.10Conclusion
• References

6.1 INTRODUCTION

Today, we are at the verge of technological advancements that will drastically revolutionize our living standards (Kukreja & Dhiman, 2020; Kukreja, Marwaha, Sareen, & Modgil, 2020). In 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto gave origin to bitcoin as a digital currency that basically ...