The keywords used for the analysis are "blockchain", "public" and "accounting". The selection of the articles was conducted with an analysis of the metadata on the TUTTO’s database of the University of Turin. The research gave 1954 results focusing attention in the period between 2016 and 2019. Selecting only publications in peer review the results have been reduced to 167. The research presented as a collection of the various databases the following results divided by type of publishing house or database: Scopus (Elsevier)(115), ScienceDirect Journals (Elsevier)(81), Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science)(51), Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science)(39), Taylor & Francis Online - Journals(16), MEDLINE/PubMed (NLM)(14), Sociological Abstracts(13), SpringerLink Open Access(10), Oxford Journals (Oxford University Press)(10), Sage Journals (Sage Publications)(9), SpringerLink(8), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)(8), PMC (PubMed Central)(8), Walter De Gruyter Journals/Yearbooks(6), Informa - Taylor & Francis (CrossRef)(6), ACM Digital Library(5), arXiv(4), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science)(4), Academic Law Reviews (LexisNexis)(3), HAL (CCSd)(3). Only the sources in English are considered only by reducing the selection to 160 articles. By eliminating the books and duplications the results have been reduced to 156.