The body of a man who went missing three months ago was found in the sea near a hotel in Dubai.
On Friday, police said Sreedharan Devakumar, a 54-year-old Indian man, was reported missing by friends on April 28.
He was working for a car rental company and had been due to fly home to Kerala to see his family. His flight was cancelled due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
At the time, police were able to track some of his movements before he disappeared using CCTV.
Last month, police were called to a five-star hotel in Deira where a man's body had washed ashore.
The body was identified as Devakumar, based on the clothes he was last seen wearing. A key to his home and a necklace were also found on Devakumar and helped identify him.
Police used the key to unlock the door to Devakumar's flat in Deira, where forensic experts collected samples from his tooth brush for a DNA test that acted as the final confirmation. This wallet and mobile phone had been left in his flat.
Colleagues of the deceased also confirmed that the necklace found on the body belonged to Devakumar.
The cause of death was not released by police but they said there was no criminal activity involved.
Devakumar's body has now been returned to his wife and two children, who are understood to live in the south Indian state.
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Blockchain is a form of distributed ledger technology, a digital system in which data is recorded across multiple places at the same time. Unlike traditional databases, DLTs have no central administrator or centralised data storage. They are transparent because the data is visible and, because they are automatically replicated and impossible to be tampered with, they are secure.
The main difference between blockchain and other forms of DLT is the way data is stored as ‘blocks’ – new transactions are added to the existing ‘chain’ of past transactions, hence the name ‘blockchain’. It is impossible to delete or modify information on the chain due to the replication of blocks across various locations.
Blockchain is mostly associated with cryptocurrency Bitcoin. Due to the inability to tamper with transactions, advocates say this makes the currency more secure and safer than traditional systems. It is maintained by a network of people referred to as ‘miners’, who receive rewards for solving complex mathematical equations that enable transactions to go through.
However, one of the major problems that has come to light has been the presence of illicit material buried in the Bitcoin blockchain, linking it to the dark web.
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