Airbnb Founder Envisions Reputation Blockchain Empowering Sharing Economy
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2016 11:13 am
Blockchain, the revolutionary technology derived from bitcoin, is being employed to disrupt many businesses today from traditional stock exchanges to the $3 trillion global syndicated loans market. If one were to assume how the technology would first be adopted by the accommodations marketplace Airbnb, the top guess would be that it enables payments in cryptocurrencies. It could also start using smart contracts to calculate billing, whereby scanning a QR code on a door with your phone opens it and charges you by the minute as is being developed for Ethereum. However, another use for blockchain now seems ... (read more)