We are working on electricity trade using blockchain, enabling renewable energy generator to trade with neighbours in local grid.
Ask HN: What are new applications that can be built on blockchains?
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#32How 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?
Not GP, but current systems usually are not manipulation proof. Using a blockchain makes post-clock-out modifications visible immediately.
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#33Some 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?
Still it's early days, but watch these talks on IPFS[1] and Golem[2] to get a basic idea.
Re: Ask HN: What are new applications that can be built on blockchains?
#34Some 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?
You can do immediate payment - and with this, hard spending limits.
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#35Voting
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#36Trust less Decentralized exchange Open alternative to Uber, lyft and Airbnb
Isn't the trust in those services more at the physical world level than the technical level?
Yes, but the idea is now we can remove the custodians out of the mix. Why pay airbnb? The networking, booking, hopefully identity verification can all be done p2p
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#37We are working on electricity trade using blockchain, enabling renewable energy generator to trade with neighbours in local grid.
That sounds interesting is there a link to try the prototype who is we
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#38Voting
Do you mean the elections or prediction markets
Re: Ask HN: What are new applications that can be built on blockchains?
#39Some 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?
Check out https://golem.network or http://sia.tech
You rent out your unused CPU (Golem) or unused disk space (Sia) and get automatically rewarded
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who is being trusted to accurately report whether the borrower has paid? I have never understood how the "oracle" problem gets worked out in practice.
The amazing this about this particular application is that an oracle is not required at all. So it's completely automatic and trustless. The contract (think of it as a class in Java) has a single function which looks something like this: function acquire_name() { if (msg.value > $200) {self.registrar.transfer_ownership(self.domain_name, msg.sender);}} registrar is a pointer to an instance of the domain registrar that…
And how would this help ? The economical problems people face in this day and age are not, at all, that contracts aren't enforced. Quite the contrary.
The opposite is true: the problems people face is that the only contracts available to them, from rents to cell service, have onerous and unfair terms, favoring whichever side of the contract requires investment, and this unfairness goes up to a ridiculous extent.
The last thing we need is more thorough enforcement of them. Hell, I do believe even the owners themselves would demand the ability to "do business". For instance, to let someone hang on to a name and remain in business while they search for a way to repay their debts.