Evaluating the Barriers to Implementing Blockchain in Bangladesh and Suggesting Technical Solutions to the Aspects
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.46610/IJDTNSS.2025.v01i01.005Keywords:
Blockchain challenges, House of Quality (HoQ), Industrial application, Pythagorean Fuzzy Delphi (PFD) method, Quality Function Deployment (QFD) matrixAbstract
Blockchain technology has the potential to bring about a revolutionary change in the dynamics of the growing economy in countries like Bangladesh. The idea is comparatively new and in its early stages. The implementation process requires a logical, technical, and engineering assessment of various aspects. These factors are an important part of the study of the concerns before blockchain-based technology is made available in any relevant field. This study aimed to discover the considerations to be made to integrate blockchain in industrial applications. The piece of work was carried out to discover the challenges that are generally faced and need to be overcome to implement blockchain in Bangladesh. A wide range of possibilities were considered initially, which were jotted down into a logically sized data set. The selection was made through a survey among professionals who are well-informed about the sides and perceptions of the possibility. In this work, Pythagorean Fuzzy Delphi (PFD) was used to select the significant challenges from the responses of the aforementioned primary source of statistics as a form of judgment and estimation. In the latter part, Quality Function Deployment (QFD) was employed to discuss the technical solutions that will be able to provide substitute ways out of the obstructions.
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