Bitland: Blockchain Land Registry Against ‘Corrupt Government’
A new project piloted in West Africa, called Bitland, is using blockchain technology as a decentralized land registry. Due to the tamper-resistant nature of distributed ledgers, the project hopes to give the African citizens a better method to survey land and record title deeds using the Bitland blockchain. It will engage with “28 communities in Kumasi,....
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Decentralized land registry project Bitland has announced its ICO crowdfunding campaign and slated launch following a partnership with Danish exchange OpenLedger and revamped “decentralized conglomerate” CCEDK. Bitland: Development Project Has ‘Many Aspects’. Bitland (bitland.world), which seeks to secure rights for landowners by using the blockchain to....
A team of blockchain technology pioneers from Ghana, Denmark, and the U.S., has launched a blockchain initiative to establish usable land titles and free up trillions of dollars for infrastructure development in West Africa, according to Forbes. The Bitland initiative will educate the population about technology and hopefully foster the benefits of documented land ownership to those who don’t have it. It will begin in Ghana and expand throughout Africa, with hopes of catapulting infrastructure development and strengthening democracy. Ronny Boesing, the CEO and founder of CCEDK, the Danish....
Authorities in Sweden have announced that the government is exploring the implementation of blockchain based land registry in the country. The use of blockchain based registries has now spread to Sweden. The European country may soon be implementing a new land registry based on distributed ledger. With the number of people around, it is hard to keep track of all the things they had ever owned. However, it is not that hard when it comes to land ownership. For starters, it is not easy to hide a piece of land, as it has to be under the sun where everyone can easily see. However, over a period....
Sweden could become the first country to put the country’s land registry on the Blockchain, the Swedish Land Registry said. With a population of just under 10 million people, it can be hard to keep track of who owns what when it comes to land ownership in Sweden particularly over a period of time, unless some reliable form of record keeping is maintained. The distributed ledger technology, which happens to be the backbone of Bitcoin, is the perfect solution in keeping track of land ownership, with the Scandinavian country being the latest country looking into how Blockchain can help. Proof....
Sweden could become the first country to have a blockchain-based land registry. A team of technology players is working with the country’s land registry on a system that could possibly go live this fall, according to Reuters. ChromaWay, a Swedish blockchain company, consulting firm Kairos Future, and telecommunications service provider Telia, have developed “proof of concept” demonstration of how the Swedish land registry would work. Blockchain Brings Benefits. The blockchain ledger can allow clearing and settlement on one database that provides an easier-to-use and more reliable system....