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Decentraland: The Alleged Decentralization of Blockchain Applications

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Massimo Franceschet

Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics at the University of Udine, Italy

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Communications of the ACM Volume 66 Issue 6June 2023pp 45–47https://doi.org/10.1145/3563942

Published:24 May 2023Publication History

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Breaking down the blockchain.

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Decentraland: The Alleged Decentralization of Blockchain Applications
1. General and reference
  1. Cross-computing tools and techniques
    1. Experimentation
    2. Metrics
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties

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Communications of the ACM Volume 66, Issue 6
June 2023
109 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/3599937
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Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY
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