Chapter: 'The Blockchain and Kudos: A Distributed System for Educational Record, Reputation and Reward' from book: Adaptive and Adaptable Learning: 11th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2016, Lyon, France, September 13-16, 2016, Proceedings
The 'blockchain' is the core mechanism for the Bitcoin digital payment system. It embraces a set of inter-related technologies: the blockchain itself as a distributed record of digital events, the distributed consensus method to agree whether a new block is legitimate, automated smart cont...
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Language: | English |
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Springer Nature
2016
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Series: | Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Online Access: | Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication Open Access: DOAB, download the publication |