Blockchain in the Smart City and Its Financial Sustainability from a Stakeholder’s Perspective

Hossein Hassani (), Kujtim Avdiu, Stephan Unger and Maedeh Taj Mazinani
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Hossein Hassani: Research Institute of Energy Management and Planning, University of Tehran, Tehran 1417466191, Iran
Kujtim Avdiu: Department of Statistics, Nationalbank Austria, Otto-Wagner-Platz 3, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Stephan Unger: Department of Economics and Business, Saint Anselm College, 100 Saint Anselm Drive, Manchester, NH 03102, USA
Maedeh Taj Mazinani: Department of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran 1417466191, Iran

JRFM, 2023, vol. 16, issue 9, 1-21

Abstract: In this paper, we take a city’s budget, which represents the resources that need to be allocated, and test how many blockchain users need to join a voting process of how the city’s resources should be allocated in order to best represent their preferences. This voting process can be tracked very well through the utilization of IoT and smart technology in a smart city. Therefore, we showed that the budget resource allocation of a smart city can be significantly optimized through the utilization of blockchain technology. We found that just a tiny fraction of 0.12% of the population of blockchain participants is needed to significantly represent the spending behavior of the total population. This has significant implications as it shows the strength and importance of a required blockchain in a smart city and its minimal energy consumption requirements.

Keywords: blockchain; smart city; IoT; information entropy; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C E F2 F3 G (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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