Smart Property is One Small Step Closer with Coincollectr Prototype
When I walked into Matt Branton's downtown office in early March to talk about his Bitcoin-based content micropayments system Coinlock, he was shopping for plumbing equipment. At least that's what it seemed like - he was on some obscure web store browsing valves, levers, tubing, t-joints, and whatnot (if you can guess, I know nothing about plumbing).....
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After claiming he’d filed formal complaints with the FBI, the man who alleged that Ethereum is his stolen intellectual property says he is making his first attempt to contact the media about the theft. Although Vitalik Buterin is the identified brain behind the Ethereum project which has gained notoriety especially for its smart contract feature, Jared Mimms claims that Buterin stole his idea. Mimms’ claim. In an email to CoinTelegraph on July 9, Mimms states: “Ethereum is intellectual property stolen from me. I filed analogous property with Omega Genomics. Vitalik Buterin saw my company....
Smart property is to deeds as Bitcoin is to money. In the same way that Bitcoin revolutionized the concept of currency, smart property revolutionizes the concept of ownership, removing the need for a central authority to say who owns what. Our system of ownership is just one in a growing line of things to be decentralized, but will inevitably be among the most important. The question is, how can we enforce such a system without the firepower backing modern courts? For those of you still trying to grasp this idea, it's helpful to remember that bitcoins are not actually things: Bitcoin is a....
DECENT, the blockchain based decentralized, peer-to-peer content sharing platform has launched a demo application. The new web app launched just a few days before the end of its ongoing ICO offers a better understanding of what DECENT has set out to achieve. The prototype application is available to the public, irrespective of whether they are part of the DECENT community or not. The carefully designed prototype offers most of the features that can be expected in the final release with blockchain storage set for launch next year. In the latest press release, DECENT’s co-founder and....