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Blockchain is a core technology used as a solution for double spending by Satoshi Nakamoto. This technology is a right solution for problems like forgery and double spending. The technology created many opportunities for the developers and its application not only proved promising solutions for finance industry but many other domain areas such as education, machinery, and commerce industry. This paper covers a survey of using blockchain in different domains and identified successful applications as proof of concept, and it also explores problems with respective domains for future research.
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Sheetal, Shanmuga Rathinam, G. (2021). Analysis of Various Applications of Blockchain Technology: A Survey. In: Jat, D.S., Shukla, S., Unal, A., Mishra, D.K. (eds) Data Science and Security. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 132. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5309-7_33
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