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BLOCKCHAIN 2019: Blockchain and Applications pp 153–160Cite as

Blockchain Technology: A Review of the Current Challenges of Cryptocurrency

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As a result of the 2017 boom in the cryptocurrency market, some governments around the world have begun to work in the direction of regularizing and supervising digital currency. People have gained trust in the use of cryptocurrency thanks to the security of the blockchain technology and of their economic ecosystem. This paper reviews the challenges faced by five different cryptocurrencies with the highest market capitalization. Furthermore, we analyze the blockchain technology that underlies them.

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Acknowledgements

This work was developed as part of “Virtual-Ledger-Tecnologies DLT/Blockchain y Cripto-IOT sobre organizaciones virtuales de agentes ligeros y su aplicación en la eficiencia en el transporte de última milla”, ID SA267P18, project cofinanced by Junta Castilla y León, Consejería de Educación, and FEDER funds. The research of Yeray Mezquita is supported by the pre-doctoral fellowship from the University of Salamanca and Banco Santander.

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  1. BISITE Research Group, University of Salamanca, Calle Espejo 2, 37007, Salamanca, Spain

    Diego Valdeolmillos, Yeray Mezquita, Alfonso González-Briones, Javier Prieto & Juan Manuel Corchado

  2. Air Institute, IoT Digital Innovation Hub (Spain), 37188, Carbajosa de la Sagrada, Spain

    Alfonso González-Briones & Juan Manuel Corchado

  3. Department of Electronics, Information and Communication, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology, Osaka, 535-8585, Japan

    Juan Manuel Corchado

  4. Pusat Komputeran dan Informatik, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Karung Berkunci 36, Pengkaan Chepa, 16100, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia

    Juan Manuel Corchado

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Correspondence to Yeray Mezquita , Alfonso González-Briones , Javier Prieto or Juan Manuel Corchado .

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  1. BISITE Research Group, Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Javier Prieto

  2. International Institute of Information Technology, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, India

    Ashok Kumar Das

  3. Dipartimento di Informatica - Scienza e Ingegneria , University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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  4. Politecnico do Porto and INESC TEC , Porto, Portugal

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  5. BISITE Digital Innovation Hub, University of Salamanca, AIR Institute - Deep Tech Lab , Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Juan Manuel Corchado

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Valdeolmillos, D., Mezquita, Y., González-Briones, A., Prieto, J., Corchado, J.M. (2020). Blockchain Technology: A Review of the Current Challenges of Cryptocurrency. In: Prieto, J., Das, A., Ferretti, S., Pinto, A., Corchado, J. (eds) Blockchain and Applications. BLOCKCHAIN 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1010 . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23813-1_19

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