Year: 2017 | Month: June | Volume 4 | Issue 1

Blockchain Technology: A Revolutionary Bitcoin Technology

Chinmaya Dash* and Prakash Chandra Behera
DOI:10.5958/2454-9533.2017.00004.7

Abstract :

Blockchain is a decentralized transaction and data management technology developed first for Bitcoin cryptocurrency. The interest in Blockchain technology has been increasing since the idea was coined in 2008. The reason for the interest in Blockchain is its central attributes that provide security, anonymity and data integrity without any third party organization in control of the transactions, and therefore it creates interesting research areas, especially from the perspective of technical challenges and limitations. This paper highlights the architecture, benefits and applications of Blockchain Technology.



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