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  China livestreaming e-commerce industry insights
Si R., Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, 2021. 125 pp.  Type: Book (978-9-811653-43-8)

We know the term “TikTok” refers to a form of short videos. But we might not have related it to commerce. In this 100-page book, Ruo Si vividly introduces readers to the essence of the livestreaming e-commerce indus...

Jun 13 2022
   Kings of crypto: one startup’s quest to take cryptocurrency out of Silicon Valley and onto Wall Street
Roberts J., Harvard Business Review Press, Boston, MA, 2021. 236 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-633698-70-3)

Kings of crypto is a fun read about a Bitcoin exchange startup. It begins with a readable exposition of blockchains and cryptocurrencies. Blockchains are basically distributed ledgers that show every pertinent transaction. The l...

Apr 1 2021
  Design and implementation of distributed traceability system for smart factories based on blockchain technology
Shih C., Yang K.  RACS 2019 (Proceedings of the Conference on Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems, Chongqing, China, Sep 24-27, 2019) 181-188, 2019.  Type: Proceedings

Automation processes in modern manufacturing generate a huge amount of data, which is used to guarantee stability and reduce the defect rate of the factory production lines. Collecting these datasets is not the problem; how companies p...

Nov 25 2020
  The blockchain developer: a practical guide for designing, implementing, publishing, testing, and securing distributed blockchain-based projects
Elrom E., Apress, New York, NY, 2019. 532 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-484248-46-1)

“Blockchain” and “cryptocurrency” are now common terms in news headlines. They promise a huge revolution--not only in the finance sector, but also in other activities--by removi...

Sep 4 2020
  Digital cash: the unknown history of the anarchists, utopians, and technologists who created cryptocurrency
Brunton F., PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, Princeton, NJ, 2019. 272 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-691179-49-0)

This comprehensive book covers the history of digital cash/currency, including the current era of Bitcoin and blockchain technology. The author argues that digital cash is to be understood in terms of authentication, ownership, and cer...

Feb 10 2020
  Blockchains for business process management - challenges and opportunities
Mendling J., Weber I., Aalst W., Brocke J., Cabanillas C., Daniel F., Debois S., Ciccio C., Dumas M., Dustdar S., Gal A., García-Bañuelos L., Governatori G., Hull R., Rosa M., Leopold H., Leymann F., Recker J., Reichert M., Reijers H., Rinderle-Ma S., Solti A., Rosemann M., Schulte S., Singh M., Slaats T., Staples M., Weber B., Weidlich M., Weske M., Xu X., Zhu L. ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems 9(1): 1-16, 2018.  Type: Article

Blockchain is a technology that allows for the trusted exchange of digital currency. In its initial incarnation, it focused on the trusted exchange of Bitcoins. Its emerging applications will support the trusted execution of transactio...

Feb 7 2020
  Risks of cryptocurrencies
Weaver N. Communications of the ACM 61(6): 20-24, 2018.  Type: Article

Professor Weaver does not like cryptocurrencies. I don’t either. In this all-too-brief paper, he discusses Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, Ethereum, and several others, although not the newer attempts by Apple, Facebook, and oth...

Feb 5 2020
  Majority is not enough: Bitcoin mining is vulnerable
Eyal I., Sirer E. Communications of the ACM 61(7): 95-102, 2018.  Type: Article

This article concerns a way to circumvent the decentralization aspect of Bitcoin, that is, it shows how a group of “miners” could control the cryptocurrency by colluding. The attractiveness of Bitcoin is the percept...

Jan 30 2020
  Adapting financial technology standards to blockchain platforms
Bello G., Perez A.  ACMSE 2019 (Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Southeast Conference, Kennesaw, GA, Apr 18-20, 2019) 109-116, 2019.  Type: Proceedings

Financial technology (fintech) has become an important component of the finance, banking, and payment industry. Essential financial technologies include the various approaches for blockchain and smart contracts. In this paper, the auth...

Jan 28 2020
   Programming Bitcoin: learn how to program Bitcoin from scratch
Song J., O’Reilly Media, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 2019. 322 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-492031-49-9)

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” This saying, probably wrongly attributed to Confucius, might be an interpreted translation of a similar saying by 3rd century BCE philosopher Xun K...

Oct 22 2019
 
 
 
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