Blockchain report writing

Introduction 

Blockchain, as one of the distributed ledger technologies, consists of a series of linked “blocks”. The cryptocurrency “Bitcoin” is a well-known example of the blockchain technology. Apart from cybercurrencies, blockchain has been increasingly adopted in many areas including finance, logistics, insurance, medicine and even education. 

In this INDIVIDUAL assignment, you are required to write a literature review about blockchain. As the learning outcomes of this assignment, you should be able to show your independent learning ability, and your understanding of the blockchain technology. In conducting the literature review, you are expected to read and assess academic articles which should be selected from quality and authoritative sources, and included in citations in your review report. 

Your Jobs 

a. You are required to write a study report of your literature review in about 2000 words (limit: 2500 words). Proper referencing should be done in the IEEE referencing style. 

b. The report may contain the following sections: 

(Note that you may add or even modify any section if you think it is more appropriate to do so) 

1. Executive Summary (about 200 words) 

2. Introduction 

3. Design rationale behind blockchain and its core principles 

4. Discussion and comparison on three consensus protocols used in blockchain 

applications, e.g. Proof of Work in Bitcoin 

5. Current issues and future directions of the technology 

6. Your critical evaluation of the technology 

7. Conclusions 

Marking Scheme 1. Executive Summary (10 marks) 2. Design rationale and blockchain core principles (30 marks) 

a. Rationale (10 marks) b. Core principles (20 marks) 

3. Discussion and comparisons on three consensus algorithms (20 marks) 4. Current issues and future directions (20 marks) 

a. Current issues (10 marks) b. Future directions (10 marks) 5. Critical evaluation of the technology (10 marks) 6. Overall presentation (e.g. using diagrams to aid presentation, organization, and 

referencing (10 marks)

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