Re:Blockchain pilot to test decentralised solutions for cris...
by soconfused1 on Thursday April 21, 2016 @12:46PM
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Consensys is constantly implementing lots of useless solutions for attention grabbing subjects to try to drive the price up on the cryptocurrency they hold a lot of. Almost all of their ideas do not actually work in the real world.
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Re:Blockchain pilot to test decentralised solutions for cris...
by pudo on Thursday April 21, 2016 @02:30PM
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I'd guess they've found a great match: never have I seen a community so prone to irrational hypes around random new technologies as the international development and humanitarian aid communities.
The whole blockchain narrative will be a feast for them, probably with the end result that some overworked local medical workers will now have to deal with semi-broken blockchain apps to buy fresh toilet paper.
Many lives will be improved (in Brooklyn, NY).