Googling About Blockchain

34 Pages Posted: 5 May 2021

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Veni Arakelian

Council of Economic Advisors, Ministry of Finance, Hellenic Republic; UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies

Date Written: April 30, 2021

Abstract

Modern technology allows people to communicate directly using voice and video calls, emails, instant messages traveling from one device to another. Communication is done by maintaining trust in each other without a third party, no matter how far away they are. But when in a communication between two points, it is needed to make a transaction, then the procedures require the trust of a third party to establish trust such as a law firm or a bank, resulting in high costs, fraud, and inefficiency. Blockchain technology is coming to change this regime radically. Blockchain using mathematics and cryptography provides an open and decentralized base of data in each transaction that contains a value such as money, goods, real estate, work, or even notes. Creates a log for each transaction which the whole community can verify. The blockchain combining cryptography and distributed computer systems provide secure, direct peer-to-peer transactions without the need for third parties.

JEL Classification: O33

Suggested Citation

Arakelian, Veni, Googling About Blockchain (April 30, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3837652 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3837652

Veni Arakelian (Contact Author)

Council of Economic Advisors, Ministry of Finance, Hellenic Republic ( email )

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UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies ( email )

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