{"id":70,"date":"2018-04-07T16:09:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T15:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/neighbourhood\/?p=70"},"modified":"2018-05-02T14:54:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T13:54:36","slug":"considering-blockchain-general-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/neighbourhood\/2018\/04\/07\/considering-blockchain-general-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Considering Blockchain &#8211; general benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our team is considering the benefits of implementing blockchain for user privacy in the context of our application connecting people together locally. Blockchain has been subject to a huge amount of excitement in the spheres of business and technology in recent years. This highly cited book, summarizes this feeling, and the roots of the technology:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We may be at the dawn of a new revolution. This revolution started with a new fringe economy on the Internet, an alternative currency called Bitcoin that was issued and backed not by a central authority, but by automated consensus among networked users.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Melanie Swan, <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;id=RHJmBgAAQBAJ&amp;oi=fnd&amp;pg=PR3&amp;dq=blockchain&amp;ots=XQsFD0_Vi1&amp;sig=a4bCwYKiu0bKaCJD5wCzNZ6WGwU#v=onepage&amp;q=blockchain&amp;f=false\">Blockchain: Blueprint for a new economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Blockchain?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Blockchain<\/a>=the great chain of being sure&#39; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cryptochicks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#cryptochicks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/crypto_chicks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@crypto_chicks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trivial_co?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@trivial_co<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7XhCKzunvy\">pic.twitter.com\/7XhCKzunvy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Katarzyna Kaminska (@KataKaminska) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KataKaminska\/status\/982633643700039681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This tweet from the 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptochickshackathon.com\/\">#CryptoChicks Conference + Hackathon<\/a> summarises the (general) benefits, which have been highlighted from using this technology:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Security<\/li>\n<li>Privacy<\/li>\n<li>Enhanced User Validation<\/li>\n<li>Lower Transaction Costs<\/li>\n<li>Transparency<\/li>\n<li>Streamlined Administrative Processes<\/li>\n<li>User Empowerment<\/li>\n<li>Reliability<\/li>\n<li>Faster Transactions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our team is considering the benefits of implementing blockchain for user privacy in the context of our application connecting people together locally. 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