基于区块链技术的公益时间银行系统

Public welfare time bank system based on blockchain technology

在现有的时间银行系统中,时间币的发行功能和结算功能完全集中到一个中心节点上。这种极度中心化的功能结构,不仅存在容易发生中心节点单点失效、数据容易被篡改等信息安全问题,还存在着时间币的发行和流通缺乏透明度以及时间币的结算依赖中心化的结算机构等问题。针对这些问题,提出了一种基于区块链技术的解决方法。首先,将时间币的发行功能和结算功能从中心节点上分离出来;然后,利用具有分布式去中心化、集体维护和不可篡改等特性的区块链技术,将分离出来的发行功能逐步去中心化,将分离出来的结算功能去中心化,形成公益时间链(PWTB);最终,PWTB利用区块链技术以去中心化的方式将时间银行系统由单个节点维护账本变成由集体维护一个分布式的共享账本,使时间币的发行和流通公开透明,时间币的结算不依赖某个中心化的节点。安全分析表明所设计的PWTB能够实现安全的信息传输与存储,以及数据的共享。

In the existing time bank system, the issuance and settlement functions of time dollar are completely centralized on a central node. This central way not only suffers from many security problems including single point failure of central node and data tampering, but also has some problems such as lack of transparency in time dollar issuance and circulation, the dependance on centralized settlement agency in time dollar settlement process. In order to solve these problems, a public welfare time bank system based on blockchain was proposed. Firstly, the issuance function and settlement function of time dollar were separated from the central node. Then, the separated issuance function was gradually decentralized, and the separated settlement function was directly decentralized by the use of advantages of blockchain such as distributed decentration, collective maintenance and the feature of not easy to tamper, after that Public Welfare Time Blockchain(PWTB) was formed. Finally, PWTB used blockchain to decentralize the time bank system from a single node maintaining ledger to the collective maintaining distributed shared ledger, so the issuance and circulation of time dollar became open and transparent, and the settlement of time dollar did not rely on a central node. The security analysis shows that the PWTB can achieve safe information transmission and storage as well as safe data sharing.