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Ask HN: What are new applications that can be built on blockchains?

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Re: Ask HN: What are new applications that can be built on blockchains?

#11
Distributed ledgers [0], if you're a Fortune 500 [1] [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_ledger

[1] http://news.sap.com/sapphire-now-sap-cloud-platform-blockcha...

[2] http://www-935.ibm.com/industries/retail/supply-chain/

The Linux Foundation's related project:

https://www.hyperledger.org/

Turn your brain's marketing parser on before attempting to read any of this stuff.

Re: Ask HN: What are new applications that can be built on blockchains?

#12
Democratic Autonomous Organizations -- which are corporations whose law is created not by human organizations; the law for ricardian contracts is instead defined by a relationship between trustless consensus and formally verifiable logic.

See the og tao here: http://chriseth.github.io/browser-solidity/?gist=192371538cf...

and read about the $50 million tao debacle on wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO_(organization)

more about ricardian contracts on ethereum here: http://iang.org/papers/intersection_ricardian_smart.html

Re: Ask HN: What are new applications that can be built on blockchains?

#13

Check out the top coins here: https://coinmarketcap.com From there you can click on any coin and get a link back to each project's website. Exploring those should cover a good chunk of the use-cases that are popular right now. That's a good start.

I'm not looking for the use cases of the coins I'm looking for applications that can be built on top of the Blockchain enabled by the new cryptographic go i'm not looking for the use cases of the Coins I'm looking for applications that can be built on top of the Blockchain enabled by the new cryptographic coins - what are the non-obvious applications

Re: Ask HN: What are new applications that can be built on blockchains?

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I think it makes a lot of sense to build a DNS system using contacts. Names can be auctioned off and given automatically to the highest bidder. It is also possible to set up a contract where you could trustlessly sell names. "Send $200 to an address and you will get the name". There is an auction like this in progress already, and you can participate now if you like http://ens.domains You could do even more interesti…

How would ETH name service Domains be integrated with the browser or this is supposed to work only in onion Tor and Mist browsers Update fixed formatting

FYI- while cool looking, wrapping your entire multiline comment in code tags makes it fairly unreadable on mobile (only four words show at a time).

Re: Ask HN: What are new applications that can be built on blockchains?

#17
post #7

Some obvious ones: - Cloud commodity (storage, computing - think of decentralized AWS) - Identity & reputation systems (think of global credit rating & KYC) - One to one services cutting the middleman (consultation, tutoring, renting) - Autonomous agents self negotiating contracts (common example is your car paying for its parking)

Sorry for being a noob, but how is something like "decentralized AWS" enabled by blockchain technology?

Re: Ask HN: What are new applications that can be built on blockchains?

#18
post #8

How about a simple clock in clock out system for payroll. here is a directory of dapps https://dapps.ethercasts.com/

Honest question: what are the deficiencies of current clock-in / clock-out systems that blockchain technology might help solve?

Re: Ask HN: What are new applications that can be built on blockchains?

#20
Get rid of ticket scalping.

If tickets get passed on from the buyer you pay a extra fee ( which increases with each hop ). On ticket return, a pool will be created where you can bid on -> sold tickets above the original price are going to be splitpaid to the venue and the artist / ...

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