Para kavramı ihtiyaçlara ve teknolojideki gelişmelere bağlı olarak tarih boyunca değişim göstermiştir. Elektronik para kavramından sonra şimdi de kripto para kavramı küçük tasarruf sahiplerinden büyük devletlere varıncaya kadar hepimizin gündemine girmiş durumda. Kripto para kavram ve sistemi, bilişim ve ekonominin yanı sıra din ve hukuk tarafından da irdelenmeye muhtaçtır. Kripto para sistemine peşinen taraftar veya karşı olmak yerine, borsa, bankacılık, kredi gibi kavram ve sistemlerin geçirdiği dönüşümü dikkate alarak konuya dair çok boyutlu değerlendirmeler yapılması zaruret arz etmektedir. Bu çalışmada farklı yaklaşımlar arasında karşılaştırmalarda bulunarak İslam hukuku cephesinden konuya temas etmeye gayret göstereceğiz.
With the rapid development of distributed renewable energy (DRE), demand response (DR) programs, and the proposal of the energy internet, the current centralized trading of the electricity market model is unable to meet the trading needs of distributed energy. As a decentralized and distributed accounting mode, blockchain technology fits the requirements of distributed energy to participate in the energy market. Corresponding to the transaction principle, a blockchain-based integrated energy transaction mechanism is proposed, which divides the trading process into two stages: the call auction stage and the continues auction stage. The transactions among the electricity and heat market participants were used as examples to explain the details of the trading process. Finally, the smart contracts of the transactions were designed and deployed on the Ethereum private blockchain site to demonstrate the validity of the proposed transaction scheme.
Philipp Hacker, Ioannis Lianos, Georgios Dimitropoulos, Stefan Eich
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the main legal and policy implications of blockchain technology. It proceeds in four steps. First, the chapter traces the technical and legal evolution of blockchain applications since the early days of bitcoin, highlighting in particular the political ambitions and tensions that have marked many of these projects from the start. Second, it shows how blockchain applications have created new calculative spaces of financial markets that seek to challenge existing forms of money. Third, it discusses the core points of friction with incumbent legal systems, with a particular focus on the regulability of decentralized systems in general and data protection concerns in particular. Fourth, the chapter provides an outline to the contributions to the volume, which span a wide array of topics at the intersection of blockchain, law, and politics.
The world of cryptocurrency is not transparent enough though it was established for innate transparent tracking of capital flows. The most contributing factor is the violation of securities laws and scam in Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which is used to raise capital through crowdfunding. There is a lack of proper regularization and appreciation from governments around the world which is a serious problem for the integrity of cryptocurrency market. We present a hypothetical case study of a new cryptocurrency to establish the transparency and equal right for every citizen to be part of a global system through the collaboration between people and government. The possible outcome is a model of a regulated and trusted cryptocurrency infrastructure that can be further tailored to different sectors with a different scheme.
Block chain, or distributed ledger \n technology, has the potential to address many problems in \n emerging markets. In this note the authors consider whether \n block chain can be used to mitigate the problem of \n de-risking by financial institutions, which affects \n receivers of remittances, businesses that need correspondent \n banking relationships, and charities working in conflict \n countries. Block chain is an evolving technology, and \n understanding its scope and limitations will be critical to \n employing it to address these and related issues.
The emergence of big data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is reshaping the world. While the technological revolution improves the quality of our life, new concerns are triggered. The superhuman capability enables AI to outperform human workers in many data- and/or computing-intensive tasks. Also, digital superpowers are showing arrogance towards individuals, which erodes the trust foundation of the society. In this position paper, we suggest to construct trustworthy and safe communities based on a BLockchain-Enabled Social credits System (BLESS) that rewards the residents who commit in socially beneficial activities. Human being's true value lies in serving other people. The BLESS system is considered as an efficient approach to promote the value and dignity in efforts focused on enhancing our communities and regulating business and private behaviors. The BLESS system leverages the decentralized architecture of the blockchain network, which not only allows grassroots individuals to participate rating process of a social credit system (SCS), but also provides tamper proof of transaction data in the trustless network environment. The anonymity in blockchain records also protects individuals from being targeted in the fight against powerful enterprises. Smart contract enabled authentication and authorization strategy prevents any unauthorized entity from accessing the credit system. The BLESS scheme is promising to offer a secure, transparent and decentralized SCS.
This paper explains how Blockchain technology and cryptocurrency could be enhancing the financial reporting process, and therefore improve corporate governance model of transparency and monitoring. The technology and forces behind the adoption of Blockchain are discussed as they relate to accounting, auditing and corporate governance. To demonstrate such applications examples from revenue recognition are used to illustrate how Blockchain can improve financial reporting, and transparency and monitoring aspects of the corporate governance.
John Weru is a Kenya-born writer, blogger and co-founder of PayHub East Africa. In a conversation with ICT Update, John talked about the rise of cryptocurrency, the potential of the blockchain to improve efficiency in the agricultural value chain in Africa, and theurgent need to educate people about the technology itself and the economy that it is creating.
In the present article, we analyze the transaction fees market on smart contracts-enabling blockchains. On such systems, as opposed to traditional on-premise and cloud computing solutions, users are effectively competing for computational resources through an auction for priority. This paper proposes a way to estimate the bid one has to offer to have a transaction included in the next block. This method outperforms naive bidding (bidding the optimal value of the last block) if the user is realistically "impatient" to have a transaction processed. It also shows that users collectively spend several million of dollar every years for transaction fees that could be avoided without degrading the service received. This is this "waste" we seek to reduce throughour forecasting method.
Panayiotis Christodoulou, Klitos Christodoulou, Andreas S. Andreou
A prototypical smart contract (wrapped as a decentralized application) is presented for investigating the potential benefits for applying Blockchain for Logistics. The decentralized application proposed exposes the various design challenges that programmers are likely to face when realizing the implementation of the application. The proposed methodology utilises the implementation of a dedicated smart contract that was developed based on a special-purpose structure for satisfying the requirements of the usecase. The evaluation was based on the execution of each of the functions measuring the gas costs and execution time. The prototype design was deployed and evaluated on a real-world Blockchain framework and can be considered as a first solution to how the Blockchain technology can be utilized within Logistics to overcome any barriers that may exist between professionals. In this paper we present a real implementation of a smart contract for the Logistics industry. The proposed dApp provides a live example of how Blockchain can be utilized within Logistics as it enables users to send and track products.
Sofia Alexaki, George Alexandris, Vasilios Katos, Nikolaos E. Petroulakis
Circular, data-driven healthcare is increasingly being considered as an effective model to provide efficient, cost-effective and sustainable healthcare services in the future. Central to this model is the service-dominant “building-block”-type provision of care services to patients, paired with the collaboration of healthcare providers through a common infrastructure. This combination enables the forming of a decentralized, holistic care cycle. Sharing of patient medical informationis pivotal towards reaching this goal; however, preserving medical record integrity and privacy, while at the same time allowing provider interoperability are often conflicting requirements. Blockchains and Smart Contracts can provide the underlying technology to support the decentralized care cycle by addressing patient privacy and medical record integrity, while simultaneously offering efficient interoperability between providers. To demonstrate how this could be achieved, a conceptual medical record access and sharing mechanism is presented which is suitable for a system operating within a regulated healthcare jurisdiction.
Smart contracts play an advent role in automated business participation by rendering collaboration processes more time-efficient, cost-effective and establishing more transparency. Smart contracts facilitate trust-less systems, without the need for intervention from third-party intermediaries. Existing smart-contract languages mainly focus on technical utility and do not take into consideration social and legally relevant issues, e.g., lack of semantics, ontological completeness, and so on. In this research, we address the gap by developing with rigorous means a smart contract's language that aims to be legally relevant, and that comprises socio-technical utility for cross-organizational business collaboration. The proposed language seeks to retain the strengths of the already existing languages of different generations while eluding their limitations. We aim to identify and implement abstract grammar patterns for a smart-contract language that has the expected application utility and verifiability. We evaluate the developed language based on automating industry-collaboration cases with our novel smart-contract language to test the suitability, utility, and expressiveness.
Cryptocurrencies are often thought to operate out of the reach of national regulation, but in fact their valuations, transaction volumes and user bases react substantially to news about regulatory actions. The impact depends on the specific regulatory category to which the news relates: events related to general bans on cryptocurrencies or to their treatment under securities law have the greatest adverse effect, followed by news on combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism, and on restricting the interoperability of cryptocurrencies with regulated markets. News pointing to the establishment of specific legal frameworks tailored to cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings coincides with strong market gains. These results suggest that cryptocurrency markets rely on regulated financial institutions to operate and that these markets are segmented across jurisdictions, bringing cryptocurrencies within reach of national regulation.
Benjamin D. Trump, Marie‐Valentine Florin, H. Scott Matthews, Douglas Sicker · 5 authors
Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) have the capacity to improve how many companies and organizations conduct transactions or store information securely, among many other potential benefits. However, their development and implementation does not occur in a contextual vacuum and instead must adapt to the needs and requirements of their given user. As such, we argue that the governance of DLT and blockchain must be applied against two core questions: who should have access to information within a given DLT/blockchain, and should management of that system be open or restricted/permissioned? While the technology is still emerging, its application to and success within various organizations will be largely dependent upon these key governance concerns.
This article looks at the application of present Indian payment system policies and regulatory model on virtual-currency in India. In fact, simply banning cryptocurrency in India would not serve the purpose of legislature and Reserve Bank of India (RBI); rather it will boost cryptocurrency frauds in India due to absence of any law. The present article analysis shows that there is an ample scope within the present models and policies with necessary amendments to facilitate the regulation of virtual-currency in India. The analysis also suggests new model regulation on cryptocurrency which shall constitute the basic model regulations in India to govern cryptocurrency technology and products. Author uses the Banking Regulation Act as a model, regulating all types of new fintech products such as cryptocurrency, Bitcoin & business activity, its intermediaries, exchanges, customer protection in robust and transparent fashion in India.
Mukhadin Eskindarov, М. А. Абрамова, В. В. Масленников, Nataliya A. Amosova · 14 authors
The active digitalization of the life of modern society observed over the past 20 years has led to real changes in the economy. The financial sector is at the heart of a digital transformation that has been spearheaded by FinTech, which is now shaping a new segment of modern financial markets. At the same time, the most wellknown objects of FinTech are cryptocurrency and token. Cryptocurrencies, regardless of the attitude of regulatory authorities to them, have become a virtual reality of the financial sector and are actively used to pay for goods and services. The peculiarity of cryptocurrencies is its anonymity and unaccountability of the state that defines a range of risks to society and the state. However, cryptocurrencies, along with risks, create opportunities — from the development of innovative technologies to the creation of new jobs and replenishment of the national budget. The penetration of FinTech into the financial market segments traditionally occupied by banks gave rise to a discussion about their future. However, it will probably not be the displacement of the banks but their FinTech transformation. An example of this is the payment industry, which has become one of the main consumers of the latest financial technologies and provides a wide range of opportunities for FinTech companies to develop. An important element of FinTech is RegTech (Regulatory Technology), which allows companies to bypass trade barriers and helps build a constructive dialogue with regulators. In turn, SupTech (Supervision Technology) is used for analysis and forecasting purposes. At the end of the article, based on the analysis of foreign experience, we formulated the main approaches, the implementation of which allows states to stimulate the introduction and development of new financial technologies, as well as we analysed the experience of interstate coordination of cooperation in the field of financial technologies in the EU and the EAEU countries.
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FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
Digitalization and Economic Development in Agriculture
Yusuf Sani Abubakar, Ahmad Faosiy Ogunbado, Mpawenimana Abdallah Saidi
Bitcoin is a type of cryptocurrency and the most successful in blockchain management. It has become famous in recent years. The critical aspects of cryptocurrency are its legitimacy, source of money laundering, tax evasion, lack of regulation etc. The aim of this study is to explore the view of Muslim scholars on the legality of bitcoin with respect to Shariah. The study adopts doctrinal approach which utilizes descriptive approach of qualitative research methodology which relies on secondary data in form of text books, journals, newspapers, related websites etc. The study found that Muslim scholars are divided on the issue. A part of them completely rejected bitcoin and considered it against Shariah principles. On the other hand, some Muslim scholars believe bitcoin does not contradict Islamic principles and therefore may be used, however with certain conditions. The researchers tend to support the proponents’ view as most of the opponents’ grounds for the rejection are temporary in nature which may be covered through policy regulations.
The rapid proliferation of digital technologies with new functionalities has profoundly changed competitive environments, reshaping traditional business strategies and processes (Bharadwaj, Sawy, Pavlou, & Venkatraman, 2013). Such technologies also give rise to new ways of collaboration, leveraging resources, product/service design, development, and deployment over open standards and shared technologies (Markus & Loebecke, 2013). At the microlevel, digital technologies also reshaped the mentality of entrepreneurs (Domenico, Daniel, & Nunan, 2014) and hence affect their decision-making processes (Shepherd, Williams, & Patzelt, 2014). Digital entrepreneurship includes ventures and transformation of existing businesses by creating novel digital technologies and/or novel usage of such technologies. Currently, many countries consider digital entrepreneurship as a critical pillar for digital economic development. It is imperative to develop a fine-grained understanding of digital entrepreneurship. Traditionally, research on entrepreneurship seeks to understand “how, by whom, and with what effects opportunities to create future goods and services are discovered, evaluated, and exploited” (Shane & Venkataraman, 2000) and how entrepreneurial activities, processes, and outcomes are influenced by certain contexts (Zahra, Wright, & Abdelgawad, 2014). Despite the increasing numbers of entrepreneurs and businesses that are currently using digital technologies to pursue opportunities, research has lagged far behind practice and paid limited attention to the phenomenon (Grégoire & Shepherd, 2012). Particularly, the understanding about the role that digital technologies play in entrepreneurship and the role that users and agents play in digital entrepreneurship remains limited (Nambisan, 2016). Several review articles on entrepreneurship also clearly point out the gaps in understanding the novel usage of digital technologies by entrepreneurs (Kiss, Danis, & Cavusgil, 2012; Mainela, Puhakka, & Servais, 2014; Shepherd et al., 2014). Research in the IS field has a relatively long tradition of investigating entrepreneurial actions enabled by digital technologies within an organizational context (Bharadwaj et al., 2013; Sambamurthy, Bharadwaj, & Grover, 2003). However, only a few recent studies have shed light on the characteristics and design of digital platforms for entrepreneurial activities, such as crowdfunding (Burtch, 2013; Burtch, 2014; Zheng, Li, Wu, & Xu, 2014). The objective of this special issue is to provide a forum for IS and other business scholars to engage in this important dialogue on digital entrepreneurship and to contribute to the development of cumulative knowledge in this pivotal area. The selected articles address digital entrepreneurship from quite diversified perspectives with different methodologies and shed light on the roles of technologies. In particular, these studies reveal some interesting interactions among platforms, players, institutions, and agency and offer rich insights to guide future research on digital entrepreneurship. The study on “Digital Transformation by SME Entrepreneurs: A Capability Perspective” by Li, Su, Zhang, and Mao (2018) offers a special perspective to understand the transformation of SMEs in a digital ecosystem. This paper presents case studies that describe how seven SMEs have transformed from local, incapable small firms to active and successful cross-border e-commerce (CBEC) players on the Alibaba platform. From the authors' view, these Chinese firms were “least likely to embrace IT and complex digital platforms for foreign trade.” The miracle happened through dynamic managerial capability building, organization capability building for CBEC, and strategic changes. A key perspective to appreciate the paper is its exposition on how SMEs acquire capabilities through the Alibaba digital platform. While the authors rightfully focus on SMEs' acquisition of capabilities necessary for CBEC and beyond, a reader may as well appreciate how a digital platform plays a nurturing role in this process. Almost at every step, the platform goes the extra mile in motivating SMEs, providing hands-on training on the use of the platform, providing social networking and mutual learning among SMEs, building CBEC tools to overcome trading barriers, and motivating SMEs for strategic transformation. Therefore, the moral of the story is really not only about how individual SMEs became heroically successful but also about what a platform should do to build a digital ecosystem, with CBEC being an example. The authors call it the “management-oriented service” of the platform, which could be interpreted as the “nurturing,” “coaching,” and “scaffolding” roles of the platform. The intricate relationship between the platform and SMEs is what makes this case study different. A plausible explanation of this phenomenon is the Chinese business culture on relationships or “guanxi.” If so, this study offers an interesting contrast to the typical arms-length business relationship that exists between firms and a platform in the West. The paper, “From a Marketplace of Electronics to a Digital Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (DEE): The Emergence of a Meta-Organization in Zhongguancun, China,” by Du, Pan, Zhou, and Ouyang (2018), focuses on the digital entrepreneurial ecosystem (DEE) and, particularly, the role of the external environment, using a case-based approach. The paper reports on the findings from a single case study of an emerging DEE in China, often referred to as “China's Silicon Valley.” Meta-organizational theory is used to show that the emergence of the DEE involves the development of a meta-organization or “community.” The meta-organization comprises elements of labour (institutional supporters, coworking space operators, and niche players) and integration effort, which is concerned with the construction of a common infrastructure and the cultivation of an entrepreneurial culture. The study adds to the literature by providing a rich account of the emergence of a DEE and showing the importance of taking a community perspective in examining how the actors involved organize to exploit the entrepreneurial opportunities available through digital technologies. Given that much of the research on digital entrepreneurship is at the single firm level, this study makes an important contribution by examining the ecosystem and the meta-organization formation process. This provides a richly grounded basis for guiding entrepreneurs on the dynamics of a DEE and the roles and processes involved. Sometimes, digital platforms may pose negative challenges to heterogeneous entrepreneurship. The stigma of a digital platform is one of such challenges that might affect entrepreneurs and their ventures on the platform. The study by Ingram Bogusz and Morisse (2018), entitled “How Infrastructures Anchor Open Entrepreneurship: The Case of Bitcoin and Stigma,” brings a fresh perspective to understand the relational aspects of digital platforms by using an ideological lens to examine how a digital platform (in this case bitcoin infrastructure) is described and interpreted by open entrepreneurs and how such ideologically heterogeneous entrepreneurship responds to stigma towards bitcoin communities. The authors used a case study of the bitcoin community and entrepreneurs to reveal the possible ideologies held by entrepreneurs over bitcoin communities, ranging from mainstream, pragmatist, technologist to libertarian. Entrepreneurs with different ideologies develop different interpretations of the stigma towards bitcoin communities and hence respond in different ways. Financing is a critical issue for entrepreneurship, and crowdfunding offers a novel approach. Two papers in this special issue provide interesting and supplementary insight. The paper entitled “Sponsor's Cocreation and Psychological Ownership in Reward-based Crowdfunding” by Zheng, Xu, Zhang, and Wang (2018) addresses the topic of online reward-based crowdfunding. The study draws on data from a sample of individual crowdfunding investors in China. It focuses on how the sponsor's psychological ownership of the entrepreneurial project is promoted by their value cocreation process and leads to an improvement of the sponsor-entrepreneur relationship and commitment. Sponsor's cocreation positively influences psychological ownership by generating perceptions of control and intimate knowing about the project, which the authors showed as important mediators of the relationship. The study found that the relationship between sponsor cocreation and psychological ownership was moderated by the entrepreneur's activeness, as well as by social connections, implying that active involvement of the entrepreneur and sharing of information were important factors in enhancing the relationship. The paper makes an important contribution to a so-far neglected area of reward-based crowdfunding research by focusing on the postinvestment behaviours and relationships of sponsors and entrepreneur. By considering the role of sponsor cocreation on the relationship and the sponsor's ongoing commitment to the project, the paper provides useful insights into the psychological and behavioural dimensions associated with reward-based crowdfunding. The study by Thies, Wessel, and Benlian (2018), entitled “Network Effects on Crowdfunding Platforms: Exploring the Implications of Relaxing Input Control,” sheds light on the mechanisms that drive the evolution and growth of a crowdfunding platform. Using 8-year data from one of the most popular reward-based crowdfunding platforms, Kickstarter, the authors seek to answer whether, in such digital platforms, the platform growth is mainly driven by funders, entrepreneurial projects, or their reciprocal relationship. The findings suggest asymmetric network effects, in that increasing the number of entrepreneurial projects, as compared with the number of funders, contributes more to network effects and is more critical for platform growth. Hence, should losing input control, one of the mechanisms to increase the number of entrepreneurial projects, be a reasonable choice? The results show that both same-side and cross-side network effects would be compromised. The value in this research is to offer a useful way to understand the dynamics in digital platforms resulting from network structures. The selected articles investigate quite a diversified yet related set of phenomena in digital entrepreneurship and reveal the rich interaction among digital platforms, entrepreneurs, institutions, and investors. We believe these studies add great value to enrich our understanding of digital entrepreneurship and hope the exploration effort made by the authors in this special issue will inspire future research developments. Dr Kathy Ning Shen is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Business and Management at the University of Wollongong in Dubai. She received her Doctoral degree in Information Systems from the City University of Hong Kong and was the Chairperson of the Management Information System Department at Abu Dhabi University. Her main research areas include human-computer interaction, applications of information systems in organizations, e-marketing, virtual communities, and knowledge management. She has published more than 60 refereed journal and conference articles. Her work has appeared in top refereed journals such as Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Information & Management, Journal of Business Research, Communications of the ACM, Behaviour and Information Technology, Journal of Computer Information Systems, and Internet Research and top conferences in the field. Professor Valerie Lindsay is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management, and Director of Graduate Programs (SBA) at the American University of Sharjah (AUS) in the UAE. She has a PhD from the University of Warwick in the UK. Prior to joining AUS, she was the Dean of the Faculty of Business at the University of Wollongong in Dubai, held academic positions at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and at the University of Warwick, UK, specializing in international business and strategy. Professor Lindsay's research interests lie in the area of international strategy, specifically, internationalization and market entry, SMEs, services internationalization, and business in Asia. Her work has been published in leading journals, including Management International Review, Organizational Dynamics, Industrial Marketing Management, and International Journal of Services Industry Marketing, and she coauthored the book Knowledge at Work. Before joining academia, Valerie was the New Zealand Marketing Manager for ICI Pharmaceuticals and also worked in two New Zealand government departments in the areas of trade and tertiary education. She has consulted widely in strategy and marketing in industry and in government over many years. Professor Yunjie (Calvin) Xu is a Professor at the School of Management, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. He received his PhD in Management Information Systems from Syracuse University, New York, USA. His research interests include electronic commerce, knowledge management, and social media. His research publications appeared in various information systems journals, including Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Association for Information Systems, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Communication of the ACM, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Journal of Retailing, and Decision Support Systems.
Derivatives are the “bad boys” of modern finance: exciting, dangerous, and fundamentally misunderstood. These misunderstandings stem from the failure of scholars and policymakers to fully appreciate the unique legal and economic structure of derivative contracts, along with the important differences between these contracts and conventional equity and debt securities. This Article seeks to correct these misunderstandings by splitting derivative contracts open, identifying their constituent elements, and observing how these elements interact with one another. These elements include some of the world’s most sophisticated state-contingent contracting, the allocation of property and decision-making rights, and relational mechanisms such as reputation and the expectation of future dealings. The resulting hybridity essentially splits every derivative into two separate contracts: one that governs under normal market conditions, and another that governs under conditions of fundamental uncertainty. In good times, derivative contracts contemplate the almost automatic determination and performance of each counterparty’s obligations. In bad times, these contracts include various mechanisms designed to provide counterparties with the flexibility to incorporate new information, fill contractual gaps, and promote efficient renegotiation.\nThe process of splitting derivative contracts open yields a number of important policy insights. First, the bundling of contract, property, decision-making rights, and relational mechanisms makes derivatives look far more like commercial loans than publicly traded shares or bonds. The regulatory treatment of derivatives as “securities”—and the resulting emphasis on market transparency—is thus somewhat misguided and serves to distract attention from the significant prudential risks posed by the widespread use of derivatives. Second, the flexibility associated with the relational mechanisms embedded within many derivative contracts can play a useful role in promoting both institutional and broader financial stability. This has important implications in terms of the desirability of the recent push toward mandatory central clearing of derivative contracts. It also exposes the potential perils of recent proposals to use distributed ledger technology and smart contracts to execute, clear, and settle these contracts. By the same token, the widespread breakdown of these relational mechanisms can be a source of financial instability. This provides a compelling rationale for authorizing central banks to act as “dealers of last resort” during periods of fundamental uncertainty.
In this report, Shakow explains how a decentralized autonomous organization functions and interacts with the U.S. tax system and presents the many tax issues that these structures raise. The possibility of using smart contracts to allow an entity to operate totally autonomously on a blockchain platform seems attractive. However, little thought has been given to how such an entity can comply with the requirements of a tax system. The DAO, the first major attempt to create such an organization, failed because of a programming error. If successful examples proliferate in the future, tax authorities will face significant problems in getting these organizations and their owners to comply with the tax laws.
Sandi Gec, Dejan Lavbič, Marko Bajec, Vlado Stankovski
Today, container-based virtualization is very popular due to the lightweight nature of containers and the ability to use them flexibly in various heterogeneously composed systems. This makes it possible to collaboratively develop services by sharing various types of resources, such as infrastructures, software and digitalized content. In this work, our home made video-conferencing (VC) system is used to study resource usage optimisation in business context. An application like this, does not provide monetization possibilities to all involved stakeholders including end users, cloud providers, software engineers and similar. Blockchain related technologies, such as Smart Contracts (SC) offer a possibility to address some of these needs. We introduce a novel architecture for monetization of added-value according to preferences of the stakeholders that participate in joint software service offers. The developed architecture facilitates use case scenarios of service and resource offers according to fixed and dynamic pricing schemes, fixed usage period, prepaid quota for flexible usage, division of income, consensual decisions among collaborative service providers, and constrained based usage of resources or services. Our container-based VC service, which is based on the Jitsi Meet Open Source software is used to demonstrate the proposed architecture and the benefits of the investigated use cases.
Sandi Gec, Dejan Lavbič, Marko Bajec, Vlado Stankovski
Today, container-based virtualization is very popular due to the lightweight\nnature of containers and the ability to use them flexibly in various\nheterogeneously composed systems. This makes it possible to collaboratively\ndevelop services by sharing various types of resources, such as\ninfrastructures, software and digitalized content. In this work, our home made\nvideo-conferencing (VC) system is used to study resource usage optimisation in\nbusiness context. An application like this, does not provide monetization\npossibilities to all involved stakeholders including end users, cloud\nproviders, software engineers and similar. Blockchain related technologies,\nsuch as Smart Contracts (SC) offer a possibility to address some of these\nneeds. We introduce a novel architecture for monetization of added-value\naccording to preferences of the stakeholders that participate in joint software\nservice offers. The developed architecture facilitates use case scenarios of\nservice and resource offers according to fixed and dynamic pricing schemes,\nfixed usage period, prepaid quota for flexible usage, division of income,\nconsensual decisions among collaborative service providers, and constrained\nbased usage of resources or services. Our container-based VC service, which is\nbased on the Jitsi Meet Open Source software is used to demonstrate the\nproposed architecture and the benefits of the investigated use cases.\n