Law & Regulation

Simplified payment verification (SPV) was first discussed in the Bitcoin white paper (Wright, 2008), and was taken up by other

De Filippi et al. (2022) created a seemingly well-argued academic research paper focused on the means by which distributed blockchain-based

Measuring the distance between nodes has been considered complex (Chen et al., 2020) and liable to error or listed computational

The concept of a ‘rollback’ attack is referenced when it comes to blockchain solutions and attacks or changes to the

The ability to scale a blockchain is related to the problem of scaling a distributed database. For example, the original

Lessig (2000) promoted an early concept adopted by cypherpunk computer coders and anarchists: “Code is law.” Such a mentality has

The recent collapse of FTX demonstrates the need for oversight within financial accounting systems. Unfortunately, the term decentralisation has been

Liu and Camp (2006) demonstrate the common error made by many trained in computer science but not economics. In their

The Bitcoin white paper (Wright, 2008, p. 1) references a system that provides “small casual payments,” allowing for the dissemination

Rajasekaran et al. (2022) demonstrate the problem when researchers focus on papers published within the last 3 to 5 years,

Cimini, G., Squartini, T., Saracco, F., Garlaschelli, D., Gabrielli, A., & Caldarelli, G. (2019). The statistical physics of real-world networks.

Annotated Bibliography: Part II Hoffman et al. (2020) aid in evidencing how the terminology and descriptions associated with decentralisation can