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An Overview on Blockchain Technology and Its Applications

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Blockchain, the establishment of Bit coin, has gotten broad considerations as of late. Block chain fills in as a changeless record which permits exchanges occur in a decentralized way. Blockchain-based applications are jumping up, covering various fields including money related administrations, notoriety framework and Internet of Things IoT, etc. Be that as it may, there are as yet numerous difficulties of Blockchain innovation such as adaptability and security issues holding on to be survived. This paper gives an Overview on BlockChain Technology and its Architecture.

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Yalla, S.T., Nikhilendra, P. (2020). An Overview on Blockchain Technology and Its Applications. In: Kumar, A., Paprzycki, M., Gunjan, V. (eds) ICDSMLA 2019. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 601. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1420-3_113

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