Potential threats that affect trust

The potential threats that might affect trust in the blockchain involve the following aspects:

• The blockchain distributed architecture
• The blockchain application layer
• The blockchain security model

Now, let's look at some of the main threats concerning these different aspects.

Threats to the distributed architecture

In general, the security threats concerning the blockchain are different compared to traditional applications, precisely because of the distributed nature of the blockchain architecture. Therefore, many of the attacks that are performed on centralized architectures are actually ineffective when performed on blockchain. Nonetheless, the latter suffers from vulnerabilities...