An exploration of bitcoin mining practices: Miners’ trust challenges and motivations
Bitcoin blockchain technology is a distributed ledger of nodes authorizing transactions between anonymous parties. Its key actors are miners using computational power to solve mathematical problems for validating transactions. By sharing blockchain’s characteristics, mining is a decentralized, trans...
Published in: | Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings |
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Format: | Conference paper |
Language: | English |
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Association for Computing Machinery
2019
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Online Access: | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85067631740&doi=10.1145%2f3290605.3300859&partnerID=40&md5=d45985ed1ccc5de5bc157d6c9a11ef99 |