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Some simple economics of the blockchain

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 63, Issue 7

Pages 80 - 90

https://doi.org/10.1145/3359552

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Blockchain technology can shape innovation and competition in digital platforms, but under what conditions?

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One can think of a blockchain not only as a large-scale, distributed database, but also as an audit trail that is impossible to alter without being noticed.

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1. Applied computing
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