blockchain for socities
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A cashless society is a totalitarian society –central digital money put everyone at the mercy of institutions who can turn anyone off
Andreas Antonopoulos
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Agenda
� What is value in our society?
� Intermediaries – role of 3rd parties
� What is blockchain in laymans terms
� A lot of examples
� Why should you care?
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the red flag act in UK to protect people from horseless carriages in 1865but most likely england lost the automotive race
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What is Value
How do we define value in our society
http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/keith.chen/papers/Final_JPE06.pdf
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The role of intermediaries
In1600s modern corporations started replacing kingdoms and monarchies
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What is blockchain
� Globally distributed
� Open and transparent
� privacy
� Immutable record keeping
Transaction
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70% land in developing countries
https://www.factom.com/blog/factom-use-case-unlocking-9-trillion-in-land-value
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Dubai onblockchain 2020
“They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but a prototype is worth a thousand pictures,” says Saif Al Aleeli, executive director of the Dubai Future Foundation.
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Blockchain for social welfare?
"We started a small trial in the north west, designed to see if we can send welfare payments using this technology, and more importantly, to see if people reliant on welfare payments would benefit from this approach."
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100 000 ev chargers in london
Norwegian company delivering evcharges with built-in payment on blockchain
I got extra juice!
i need to charge my
iPhone!
NRG Exhange
nice got some 200 NRGcoins
high
Zoe200Zoe200Don100
low
Zoe200Don100Don-40
1 NRGcoin = 100 NOK1 NRGcoin = 130 NOK
do we really need
humans?
i need more juice!
Prosumers create decentralized digital money themselves
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6861213/
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Who owns data?
Steem is blockchain bases social network like reddit that pays you for liking and sharing!
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Safe delivery with Drones?
Encrypted microchips are used to give automated delivery drones a unique identity on the blockchain which IoTapplications can use to allow or restrict drone access to locations such as a home or warehouse.
http://chronicled.org/drone-case-study.html
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Other examples
� Voting – Democracy on DAO by Merkel� Urbanisation through local coin economy � Remittances – https://www.goabra.com/� Ascribe – https://www.ascribe.io/� Blood diamond – http://www.everledger.io/� Academic records and papers� IoT – security & payment for 50 B devices � Big data + Machine Learning = Artificial
intelligence
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Why should youcare?
� Blockchain cant be un-invented
� Few big ones could control blockchain
� Become blockchain immigrants
� You can decide how this could effectthe future generations
@Geir Halvorsen
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Cons
� The infantile technology – ref internet 1989-1993
� The Hazy regulatory status
� The high energy consumption – how much does it cost to secure VISA network
� The lack of control, privacy and security – far from perfect
� The concern about integration
� Issues with adoption
� The initial cost
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Pros
� Trustless exchange and disintermediation
� Empowerment of the users
� High quality of data
� Enhanced level of protection – no single point of failure
� The process integrity – no need to get 3rd party to oversee
� The presence of immutability and transparency
� Simplification of the ecosystem
� The speed of transactions – speed up transitions due to disintermediation
� Decrease in transactions costs