BitProof: 17-Year-Old Entrepreneur Brings University Diplomas to the Blockchain
Louison Dumont, a 17 year-old entrepreneur, has partnered with venture capital investor and Draper Fischer Jurveson founder Tim Draper to launch Bitproof, a platform which enables individuals and organizations to digitally establish contracts and legal documents using the blockchain. Currently, the startup is focused on creating digital seals and issuing cryptographic keys to create unique university diplomas, due to the rising number of fraudulent university certificates and documents. Today, it is ridiculously easy to counterfeit university diplomas because there is no public and readily....
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Recently, I discovered a cool new service that allows anyone to verify an idea, document, or file on Bitcoin’s blockchain. Bitproof is one of the first companies to expand on the idea of document storage within the blockchain, one of the many uses of Bitcoin 2.0, the next generation of blockchain functionality. Bitproof is one of many companies participating in the Boost VC incubator in Silicon Valley. Boost VC was founded by Tim Draper and currently provides funding and mentoring to several Bitcoin startups. After looking into Bitproof.io more, I knew that I wanted to write about it.....
The Leonardo da Vinci Engineering School (ESILV), a renowned academic institution in Paris, France will start certifying and issuing diplomas using Bitcoin’s blockchain, as early as April 2016. The École Supérieure d’Ingénieurs Léonard de Vinci, a top engineering school in France will soon be issuing diplomas certified by the blockchain. In doing so, the institution will be the first French school to certify diplomas on the blockchain. While the announcement isn’t official yet, French publication Blockchain France revealed that the school is partnering with French bitcoin startup Paymium....
17-year-old, Louison Dumont, is a French entrepreneur known for his work with Boost VC’s accelerator and his creation, BitProof. The service is a blockchain-based certification system that protects the rights of artists, writers and anyone else. Dumont started coding when he was eight, and hasn’t stopped since. When Dumont was thirteen, he started mining....
Fake college diplomas and other credentials are a huge problem in this age of professional-grade copying and printing services. However one smart contracts startup says it’s another use-case opportunity for the blockchain. Use the Blockchain, Not Your Own Database. Singapore-based Attores says it has the technology to allow training companies and....
Holberton Software Engineering School announced it will become the first school to deliver academic certificates that are secured and accessible via Bitcoin’s blockchain. To this end, the school has collaborated with Bitcoin startup Bitproof that specializes in document certification on the blockchain. The new blockchain-powered certificates should make it easier for employers to verify job candidates’ backgrounds and reduce the number of false resumes. According to the information in Holberton school blog, each graduate will be given a paper certificate and a Digital Certificate Number....