Introduction The promise of systems based on the Internet of things (IoT) and industrial Internet of things (IIoT) for the supply chain industry is large and growing. Such technologies promise to...
In Finding Bernie Madoff, Stephen Dimmock and William Gerkin (2009) demonstrated that methodologies based on the detailed statistical analysis of financial filings might be utilised in the...
There are widespread mythologies concerning supposed attacks against Bitcoin (Bindseil et al., 2022), including ones that are promoted by people in the industry. The reality, though, is starkly...
The problem with Ethereum and BTC groups is that they are anticorporate. They call themselves crypto capitalists (Ortiz, 2020). What that really means is that they are anti-capitalist. They are...
Abstract. A system such as Bitcoin operates using a proof-of-work-based consensus mechanism that many individuals have falsely claimed to limit the ability for the system to scale. As a result,...
Numerous arguments abound in regard to scaling blockchain-based systems such as Bitcoin or the BTC system (Khan, Jung, & Hashmani, 2021; Kusunoki, 2021). When proponents of other, related systems...
There is a strange belief that non-mining systems can be nodes in Bitcoin (and, by extension, on the BTC [1] network)—without creating blocks. Then there are arguments that they help with...
There are always arguments over scaling blockchain networks. Most of them end in ad hominem attacks, and very few address the prime issues that need to be discussed and understood. None of it is...
One of the most fundamental aspects of modern liberal democracy stems from the concept of equality under the law. Such a concept does not refer to the idea of all people having the same amount of...
BTC (Core) developers have recently instigated another major change, moving the BTC network further away from Bitcoin. Some reported of an “upgrade” (Tiwari, 2021). The reality, though, is that it...