英文标题：
《Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers in Retrospective and Perspective》
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作者：
Alexander Lipton
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最新提交年份：
2017
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英文摘要：
We introduce blockchains and distributed ledgers and describe their potential applications to money and banking. The analysis compares public and private ledgers and outlines the suitability of various types of ledgers for different purposes. Furthermore, a few historical prototypes of blockchains and distributed ledgers are presented, and results of their hard forking are illustrated. Next, some potential applications of distributed ledgers to trading, clearing and settlement, payments, trade finance, etc. are outlined. Monetary circuits are argued to be natural applications for blockchains. Finally, the role of digital currencies in modern society is articulated and various forms of digital cash, such as central bank issued electronic cash, bank money, bitcoin and P2P money, are compared and contrasted. Keywords: blockchains, distributed ledgers, digital currencies, modern monetary circuit; credit creation banking; interconnected banking network.
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中文摘要：
我们介绍区块链和分布式账本，并描述它们在货币和银行业的潜在应用。该分析比较了公共和私人分类账，并概述了不同类型分类账对不同用途的适用性。此外，还介绍了区块链和分布式账本的一些历史原型，并说明了它们硬分叉的结果。接下来，概述了分布式账本在交易、清算和结算、支付、贸易融资等方面的一些潜在应用。货币回路被认为是区块链的自然应用。最后，阐述了数字货币在现代社会中的作用，并对中央银行发行的电子现金、银行货币、比特币和P2P货币等各种形式的数字现金进行了比较和对比。关键词：区块链、分布式账本、数字货币、现代货币回路；信贷创造银行业务；互联银行网络。
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分类信息：

一级分类：Quantitative Finance 数量金融学
二级分类：Mathematical Finance 数学金融学
分类描述：Mathematical and analytical methods of finance, including stochastic, probabilistic and functional analysis, algebraic, geometric and other methods
金融的数学和分析方法，包括随机、概率和泛函分析、代数、几何和其他方法
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一级分类：Quantitative Finance 数量金融学
二级分类：General Finance 一般财务
分类描述：Development of general quantitative methodologies with applications in finance
通用定量方法的发展及其在金融中的应用
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