Meet the Dad Who Registered His Daughter's Birth on the Blockchain
San Francisco-based entrepreneur Santiago Siri celebrated the arrival of his baby daughter Roma in a rather different way this week - by registering her birth on the bitcoin blockchain. Doing so seemed like a natural step for Siri, whose interest in decentralisation and blockchain technology is evidenced by his role at democracy.earth where he is working with Pia Mancini, Roma's mother, on upcoming blockchain projects. Spurred on by a meeting with Ryan Shea, co-founder of identity protocol startup OneName, Siri decided to record Roma's birth on the blockchain - excited by the idea of doing....
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Most people are well aware of how blockchain technology can be used to achieve all kinds of different needs. Most of the focus is on the financial sector these days, but this revolutionary technology can be the platform society needs to transition into a digital age. Notarizing the birth certificate of your daughter through blockchain technology is just one of the many examples. So many different aspects of our society still exist in the regular form of physical documents, bogged-down administrations, and time-consuming methods. Whenever somebody needs an officially notarized document from....
A father's gift of 1 BTC (roughly $915.80) to his newborn daughter back in 2017 is now worth more than $60,000. A 4-year-old girl has reportedly earned over 6,500% profit on a one Bitcoin (BTC) gift she received on the day of her birth. João Canhada, the founder of a Brazilian crypto exchange Foxbit, gifted 1 BTC to his newborn daughter, roughly worth $915.80. Sharing details on the event, Canhada said:“As soon as my daughter was born, in 2017, I bought 1 Bitcoin for her, not just as a gift, but as a way of investing in this new economy. At the time, BTC cost 5,000 Brazilian Real.”Four....
The United Nations aims to make it possible for all people to have a legal identity, including birth registration. This is one of the targets under the overarching goal of eradicating extreme poverty for all people everywhere by the year 2030. But providing an ID for everyone is a tremendous challenge. That is why experts are looking at Bitcoin’s....
Decentralized technology may have started with the birth of bitcoin, but the blockchain technology that underpins the world’s biggest cryptocurrency is gradually becoming the foundation for the most seismic technological shift seen since the birth of the internet. At the core of any technological advancement, there are a set of principles that determine its success, […]
Roma Siri, a baby girl born today has had her birth certificate notarized on the block chain. The potential of block chain's many applications transcends finance and general industry and today's example of the notarization of the birth certificate of a new born baby goes to prove it. While paperwork-based documents are predominantly the only source of authorization or proof of evidence to this day, the medium is and always has been unreliable and time-consuming. Physical documents may get misplaced and routinely take ages to go through the notions of an administrative process, especially....