“Internet of People”: How Blockchain Could Improve Uber, Airbnb and Other Services
Luis Fernando Molina, the chief executive and founder of Fermat.org, has released a whitepaper on the “Internet of People”. The concept offers an alternative way for content creators to stay in control of their work. Fermat.org is a platform that enables decentralised applications. The latter connect users directly to each other without any need for an intermediary. Developers can be paid modularly for app components that they create. Operating in stealth mode for the last two years, the platform already has more than 60 full-time contributors collaborating from around the world on the....
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Can Blockchain break Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, eBay and the like? The answer we want to give for the currently discussed Blockchain interpretation is ‘so far, no’ – contrary to common opinion. The reason being is that for none of the Blockchain technology specifica is there is a clear path to attract users to the platform. They are just like banks. What is it that triggers the communities fantasy on disrupting data monopolists such as Facebook, Uber, Airbnb and ebay? Foremost, there is an obvious analogy to banks. There are two parties, who want to work together (send money, chat, have a....
Understanding the way payments work is quite revealing in some cases. as it explains how a handful of companies make money off millions of transactions around the world. For example, very few people are aware of how PayPal is making a ton of money through their BrainTree hub, which is used for mobile payments by services such as Uber and AirBnb. A lot of revenue is generated for this one company powering a lot of payment options all over the world, and this type of centralization is not good news.
Uber and Airbnb, the hugely popular marketplaces for taxi-like car rides and hotel-like short-term rentals, are usually considered to be successful case stories for the emerging “sharing economy.” Another buzz phrase, “people as a services,” describes the business models of these two companies, both of which attracted funding that values them in the tens of billions of dollars and are likely to become the instant darling of investors after their expected and much awaited Initial Public Offerings (IPOs). A new paper, however, titled “Blockchain as an Institutional Technology Spearheading an....
In a paper titled “Field Confrontation, Between Capital and Labor – Emancipation and Alienation,” the future of blockchain is pontificated on and the main aspects of what it seems to offer. They talk about blockchain technology as a complete re-structuring or destruction event of the job market as we know it – especially in the world of finance. Many of the other technologies and revolutionary business models mentioned such as Uber and Airbnb talk about how entrepreneurship and the rapid advances of technology are changing our world and local economies faster than anyone ever planned. What....
Airbnb has hired a team of engineers from CoinChange, a company that is responsible for ChangeTip. However, no venturing into Bitcoin or Blockchain is on the horizon. Airbnb spokesperson reveals to CoinTelegraphCT r: 33: "We are thrilled to bring some members of the ChangeTip team on as a part of Airbnb and joining the engineering team working on building our infrastructure. We are not acquiring the assets of the company, nor do we have any plans to incorporate BitcoinCT r: 8 into the Airbnb ecosystem.” Airbnb is a company whose business model has been subject to much debate. They....