Special Issue of INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics —Blockchain Analytics

Abstract

The article discusses blockchain has no longer a niche technology used for virtual currency, a critical component of business ecosystems, identity systems, interorganizational systems related to finance and enterprise systems. Topics include the use of blockchain requires mind shifts, including critical system migration to the cloud, mutable to immutable data, agreements managed by people to computer logic; and analytics to capture and identify trends and abnormalities on an ecosystem level.