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A Comparison of Approaches for Visualizing Blockchains and Smart Contracts

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  • 1. University of Fribourg

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The use of blockchains and smart contracts is currently explored in various fields of science and engineering due to their potential of radically changing the ways of doing business and the assumed elimination of traditional legal entities. Thereby, the complexity of the underlying technical relationships and mechanisms typically hampers the understanding by non-technical experts. In this paper we review approaches for visualizing blockchains and smart contracts. The investigation focuses on design and analysis approaches, concluding with requirements for a visual modelling language.

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Härer, Felix, Fill, Hans-Georg (2019): A Comparison of Approaches for Visualizing Blockchains and Smart Contracts. In: Jusletter IT Weblaw, 21 February 2019, ISSN: 1664-848X, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2585575.

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