Blockchain and Cryptocurrency: A comparative framework of the main Architectural Drivers

Blockchain is a decentralized transaction and data management solution, the technological weapon-of-choice behind the success of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. As the number and variety of existing blockchain implementations continues to increase, adopters should focus on selecting the best one to support their decentralized applications (dApps), rather than developing new ones from scratch. In this paper we present a framework to aid software architects, developers, tool selectors and deci...