Blockchain technology: A survey on applications and security privacy Challenges

Abstract Blockchain Technology has received a lot of attention from both industry and academia due to its decentralized, persistency, anonymity and auditability properties. In this survey, use of Blockchain technology in wide applications area and its implementation challenges have been done. A rigorous search for journal/research article related to Blockchain technology have been reviewed. We have considered five databases to conduct this survey namely Sciencedirect, IEEE Xplore, Web of Science, ACM Digital Library and Inderscience are being used. After initial phase elimination 135 research articles are considered in final databases for the survey. Main focus of the survey is to provide a comprehensive analysis on wide applications of Blockchain technology for the academic research community. In this paper challenges in implementing of Blockchian and its associated security and privacy issues have been discussed. For the first time a survey of this type have been done where Blockchain with application and its associated security and privacy issue have been reviewed.