The growing trend in the use of blockchain-based cryptocurrencies in modern communities provides several advantages, but also imposes several challenges to energy markets and power systems, in general. This paper aims at providing recommendations for efficient use of digital cryptocurrencies in today’s and future smart power systems, in order to face the challenging aspects of this new technology. In this paper, existing issues and challenges of smart grids in the presence of blockchain-based cryptocurrencies are presented and some innovative approaches for efficient integration and management of blockchain-based cryptocurrencies in smart grids are proposed. Also some recommendations are given for improving the smart grids performance in the presence of digital cryptocurrencies and some future research directions are highlighted.

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电力市场和智能电网中基于区块链的加密货币的灵活管理方法

现代社区中使用基于区块链的加密货币的增长趋势提供了许多优势，但总体上也给能源市场和电力系统带来了一些挑战。本文旨在为在当今和未来的智能电源系统中有效使用数字加密货币提供建议，以应对这项新技术的挑战性方面。本文介绍了存在基于区块链的加密货币时智能电网存在的问题和挑战，并提出了一些创新的方法来有效集成和管理智能电网中基于区块链的加密货币。还提出了一些建议，以在存在数字加密货币的情况下提高智能电网的性能，并着重指出了一些未来的研究方向。