eprintid: 10057035 rev_number: 18 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/05/70/35 datestamp: 2018-09-28 17:43:33 lastmod: 2021-12-13 23:52:04 status_changed: 2018-09-28 17:43:33 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Meiklejohn, S title: Top Ten Obstacles along Distributed Ledgers' Path to Adoption ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: F48 note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: This article presents the top ten obstacles towards the adoption of distributed ledgers, ranging from identifying the right ledger to use for the right use case to developing scalable consensus protocols that provide some meaningful notion of public verifiability. date: 2018-07-01 date_type: published publisher: IEEE COMPUTER SOC official_url: http://doi.org/10.1109/MSP.2018.3111235 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1576493 doi: 10.1109/MSP.2018.3111235 lyricists_name: Meiklejohn, Sarah lyricists_id: SMEIK83 actors_name: Meiklejohn, Sarah actors_name: Turnbull, Sarah actors_id: SMEIK83 actors_id: SLTUR91 actors_role: owner actors_role: impersonator full_text_status: public publication: IEEE Security & Privacy volume: 16 number: 4 pagerange: 13-19 pages: 7 issn: 1558-4046 citation: Meiklejohn, S; (2018) Top Ten Obstacles along Distributed Ledgers' Path to Adoption. IEEE Security & Privacy , 16 (4) pp. 13-19. 10.1109/MSP.2018.3111235 <https://doi.org/10.1109/MSP.2018.3111235>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10057035/1/accepted-topten.pdf