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Blockchain and Its Legal Fields of Application
(Blockchain ve Hukuksal Kullanım Alanları)
Abstract
This work was written in Turkish. The summary on this page is a translation; the citation gives the original title in parentheses.
I think we should begin with the question of what “blockchain” is. Although it is generally understood as a concept that is mentioned together with bitcoin and is made to seem as if it existed only alongside it, blockchain is in fact a technology that has a wider field of use and also forms the infrastructure of bitcoin. Blockchain is essentially a distributed database that enables data containing value to be stored and managed securely. A software system is the system that makes up the programs enabling electronic devices to perform a particular task, that is, the system that allows us to do what we want on a computer.
They are thus systems that manage the hardware components of the computer and can also create algorithms that allow users to do what they want. This software, too, has to be programmed. That is done with a programming language. There are many programming languages, and each of them also has an architecture.
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