Blockchain Technology

Today, social media, banking applications and other emerging technologies cause devices to generate large amounts of data. Control, management, maintenance processes and secure sharing of this data are gaining more and more importance day by day. Every day, a new perspective or technology is added to the search for data storage and data management under the leadership of the finance sector. One of the last and most popular examples of this is Blockchain technology. It is clear that Blockchain technology, which reached its most popular time with the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, is not just a virtual currency technology. This research deals with Blockchain technology in depth, examines its types, architecture, working principle, usage areas and compares this technology with traditional database management systems in terms of various criteria. The results of the research reveal that this technology, which ends the central structure and prioritizes security, needs to be adapted quickly.For the full article: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/1081395