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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Carlos Molina-Jimenez, Dr Ellis SolaimanORCiD, Dr Ioannis SfyrakisORCiD
This is the authors' accepted manuscript of a conference proceedings (inc. abstract) that has been published in its final definitive form by Springer, 2019.
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Emerging blockchain technology is a promising platform for implementing smart contracts. But there is a large class of applications, where blockchain is inadequate due to performance, scalability, and consistency requirements, and also due to language expressiveness and cost issues that are hard to solve. In this paper we explain that in some situations a centralised approach that does not rely on blockchain is a better alternative due to its simplicity, scalability, and performance. We suggest that in applications where decentralisation and transparency are essential, developers can advantageously combine the two approaches into hybrid solutions where some operations are enforced by enforcers deployed on– blockchains and the rest by enforcers deployed on trusted third parties.
Author(s): Molina-Jimenez C, Solaiman E, Sfyrakis I, Ng I, Crowcroft J
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: EURO-PAR 2018 24th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing - FPDAPP 2018 International Workshop on Future Perspective of Decentralized Applications
Year of Conference: 2019
Pages: 342-354
Print publication date: 01/01/2019
Online publication date: 31/12/2018
Acceptance date: 04/09/2018
Date deposited: 21/10/2018
ISSN: 0302-9743
Publisher: Springer
URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10549-5_27
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-10549-5_27
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Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; Euro-Par 2018: Parallel Processing Workshops
ISBN: 9783030105488
