Skype Co-Founder Explores Blockchain’s Role In Achieving Global Cooperation
Jaan Tallinn, the co-founder of Skype, is working on finding ways to use blockchain technology to solve problems that require global cooperation, such as overfishing, crime, corruption and deforestation, according to The Telegraph. Jaan Tallinn was speaking at the International Business Festival, a global marketplace for making connections, in Liverpool, U.K. The festival runs through July 1. After helping people save long distance relationships with a video phone platform, the Estonian entrepreneur has committed himself to “effective altruism,” data and reason guided compassion, using....
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