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Title: Bitcoin: A source of fairness
Author: Torner López, Javier
Director: Farràs, Oriol  
Tutor: Rodriguez Velazquez, Juan Alberto  
Others: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Abstract: The present essay develops in a first part a detailed description of the inner workings of Bitcoin, covering in the second part several some non-financial applications, like those based on the Bockchain technology, and focusing mainly on its use for implementing Fair Multiparty Computations, like lotteries and distributed computation with secret inputs, which guarantee a fair development in an environment lacking of any mutual trust between the parties involved.
Keywords: fairness
cryptography
cryptocurrency
Bitcoin
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Issue Date: Jun-2017
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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