Mastering Blockchain - Second Edition

Strong research interest

Blockchain technology has stimulated intense research interest both in academia and the commercial sector. In recent years, the interest has dramatically increased, and now major institutions and researchers around the world are exploring this technology. This growth in interest is primarily because blockchain technology can help to make businesses efficient, reduce costs, and make things transparent. Academic interest is around addressing hard problems in cryptography, consensus mechanisms, performance, and addressing other limitations in blockchains.

As blockchain technology comes under the broader umbrella of distributed systems, many researchers from distributed computing research have focused their research on ...