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Using Blockchain To Track Dod Funding And Auditing, Prithvi Prasanna Sep 2022

Using Blockchain To Track Dod Funding And Auditing, Prithvi Prasanna

Theses and Dissertations

The Department of Defense (DoD) currently faces a significant problem when it comes to auditing and tracking financial transactions. The DoD has failed every audit since 2017 although it is gradually improving its auditable rating year after year. Concurrently, Blockchain is an emerging technology that has typically been used for cryptocurrencies but has slowly been adapted by private enterprises for their auditing and invoicing problems. This study investigates the value proposition of blockchain technology to improve DoD financial tracking and auditing. To test the hypothesis that blockchain is the optimal option for the DoD, this paper employs an industry blockchain …


Bitcoin, Blockchain Technology, And Cryptocurrencies, Jeffrey Dodson May 2022

Bitcoin, Blockchain Technology, And Cryptocurrencies, Jeffrey Dodson

Information Systems Undergraduate Honors Theses

The blockchain based cryptocurrency known as Bitcoin was theorized in a whitepaper published October 28, 2008, by Satoshi Nakamoto (pseudonym) (Nakamoto, 2008). The paper, titled, “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,” laid out a digital currency creation/exchange structure that employs a decentralized ledger that would later run on the author’s open-source application (Nakamoto, 2008). The main innovation of this technology is found within the security benefits provided by the proof-of-work consensus mechanism that requires solving a mathematic trap-door compression function to verify transactions/blocks added to the blockchain. On January 3, 2009, the genesis block, a term for the first block …


Blockchain, Una Herramienta De Pago Para Las Startups, Jheferson David Moreno Forero Jan 2022

Blockchain, Una Herramienta De Pago Para Las Startups, Jheferson David Moreno Forero

Finanzas y Comercio Internacional

La presente investigación tiene la intención de analizar la incidencia de la tecnología Blockchain como un mecanismo alterno en los sistemas de pago para las Startups en Colombia, debido a que estas empresas enfrentan periodos extensos y cargos muy altos para procesar los pagos que deben remitir a sus proveedores internacionales, de la misma forma se busca describir el proceso tradicional para realizar transacciones internacionales e identificar las características de la tecnología Blockchain que pueden implementarse en la forma de pago y cobro de las startups en Colombia, esto para comparar el proceso tradicional de transacciones de las operaciones con …


De-Fi Protocol Token Valuation By Projecting Token Flows And Estimating An Appropriate Risk Premium, Anders C. Brucker Jan 2022

De-Fi Protocol Token Valuation By Projecting Token Flows And Estimating An Appropriate Risk Premium, Anders C. Brucker

Honors Theses and Capstones

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