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An exploration of blockchain in social networking applications
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posted on 2023-06-09, 23:16 authored by Rituparna Bhattacharya, Martin WhiteMartin White, Natalia BeloffNatalia BeloffHuman beings have an innate tendency to socialize and the Internet gives us the opportunity to overcome geographical barriers and communicate with people located even at the opposite side of the world. Computers that started the journey of digital communication with simple emails and bulletin board systems in the eighties of the previous century have manifested their potential of connecting people across the globe with the evolution of social networking. Social networking has emerged as effective tools for bringing people of similar disposition or needs, whether professional or personal, under the same platform enabling interaction and sharing between peers. However, these services operate in a centralized environment. Blockchain, on the other hand, is revolutionizing the process of sharing things digitally between peers in a decentralized and secured fashion. In this paper, we investigate how blockchain can be applied to social networking services and review some of the currently existing social networking applications that utilize blockchain. We then propose our social networking application, e-Mudra, built on the principles of blockchain technology that facilitates peer-to-peer exchange of leftover foreign currency from international travel.
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Intelligent Computing: Proceedings of the 2021 Computing ConferenceISSN
2367-3370Publisher
SpringerExternal DOI
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2Page range
858-868Event name
Computing Conference 2021Event location
LondonEvent type
conferenceEvent date
15th - 16th July 2021Place of publication
ChamISBN
9783030801250Series
Lecture Notes in Networks and SystemsDepartment affiliated with
- Engineering and Design Publications
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- Creative Technology Publications
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2021-03-11First Open Access (FOA) Date
2022-07-08First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2021-03-11Usage metrics
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