Untangling Blockchain: A Data Processing View of Blockchain Systems

Understand

Blockchain technologies are gaining massive momentum in the last few years.

• Blockchains are distributed ledgers that enable parties who do not fully trust each other to maintain a set of global states.
• The parties agree on the existence, values and histories of the states.
• As the technology landscape is expanding rapidly, it is both important and challenging to have a firm grasp of what the core technologies have to offer, especially with respect to their data processing capabilities.