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Why Ethereum could become #1 – Revenuetral –

Why Ethereum could become #1 – Revenuetral –

What is Ethereum? Ethereum is a peer-to-peer world supercomputer designed to disrupt Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure & Amazon Web Hosting services alike. How – might you ask? How could these massive corporations become disrupted? Imagine a small group of individuals one day deciding that they’re tired of centralized firms such as Google, Microsoft and Amazon harvesting as well as censoring the personal & private data of their users as well as playing the role of time and capital absorbing intermediaries. How would this small group of individuals be able to disrupt the warehouses upon warehouses of servers that directly supply a vast majority of global infrastructure in form of web hosting services. Simple. The small group of individuals rush home, turn their computers on, and get to work. They create a peer-to-peer network that has the ability to extract computing power from each individual computer and allocate this collective amount of computer power as a resource to be utilized on-network. They call this network “Ethereum” — it is designed to act as a supercomputer — similar to the ones Google, Microsoft and Amazon provide. Now that this small group of individuals are up and running, they’re still unsatisfied. They recognize that in order to surely disrupt monopolizers that they would need more computing power, thus, more network participants willing to provide computational resources to help strengthen the network. The small group finds that it is hard to gather more network participants without a given incentive, shortly after, the group comes up with a brilliant idea. The idea being, create a built-in, network currency designed to incentivize network participants as well as designed to be a built in tax for all actions/transactions that occur on the network to prevent spam. The flood gates open.

Fast forward half a decade later — the discussion of Web 3.0 continues to develop. Ethereum is designed to disrupt the ‘firm’. Instead of centralized organizations you’d have decentralized autonomous organizations. What does this all mean? Imagine TD AmeriTrade digitizing all of their shares on top of the Ethereum Network. Take it a step further, imagine all the trading that TD AmeriTrade users execute actually occurring on the Ethereum Network. For each transaction that takes place, there’s a transactional fee paid out to network participants. In the near term, instead of all network participants allocating computational resources in exchange for Ethereum as an incentive, the Ethereum Network will be upgraded so that investors will be able to secure the network as well — not by turning on a computer, but by staking (holding) Ethereum. So let’s get this straight. Global markets trading on top of Ethereum, an embedded network tax allocated to network participants and investors — investors get paid every time stocks are traded, every time digital dollars are used as a median of exchange, every time an asset is traded such a real estate, bonds, vehicles, etc., every time a shipment tracking number is checked, every time a background or credit score is checked, there will be a small fee/tax charged and allocated to the collective owners of the Ethereum Network but you have to buy Ethereum to get a share of the most widely collected dividend of the future — there will be no other dividend that stretches across this many markets, it’ll be like owning everything with one investment (not financial advice).

Published at Sat, 18 May 2019 02:42:11 +0000

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Telecommunications giant AT&T was recently awarded a patent for a bitcoin-based “Decentralized and distributed secure home subscriber server device.”


AT&T’s bitcoin-Based Subscriber Server

In the midst of the current bitcoin frenzy, where regular users and traditional investors are looking at it as a safe haven investment or a cheaper payment method, some companies are realizing the value in its underlying technology and the applications that can be built on it. This is the case with telecommunications giant AT&T.

The multinational telecommunications conglomerate was recently awarded a patent for a bitcoin-based subscriber server, which was filed over two years ago in April 2015. The patented server uses the actual bitcoin blockchain to automate payments and to process subscriptions more efficiently.

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A decentralized and distributed secure home subscriber server is provided. First data can be sent representing a first nonce string to a mobile device; and in response to receiving second data representing the first nonce string and a second nonce string, a communication channel can be established with the mobile device as a function of the first nonce string.

[T]he disclosed decentralized and distributed secure home subscriber server system can leverage the bitcoin blockchain; the distributed database in the bitcoin infrastructure.

[…] in cases where the decentralized and distributed secure home subscriber server system utilizes the bitcoin blockchain, advantage can be taken of the plethora of nodes contributing and maintaining the security of bitcoin transactions.

AT&T decided to use bitcoin itself for security reasons as opposed to building a private blockchain, thus leveraging bitcoin’s superior network and hashing power. The use of the bitcoin blockchain could also mean that bitcoin itself may one day be integrated as a payment method for content or phone and cable bills, freeing AT&T from middlemen fees.  

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Although the prospect of Bitcoin payments or even a backend integration is exciting, the recently awarded patent is not AT&T’s first bitcoin-related endeavor, as the company has previously filed another patent which currently awaiting approval.

The previous patent filed by AT&T was for a bitcoin-powered payment system for in-car use, a more ambitious project that could take years to be fully developed.

No official comments have been made by AT&T regarding the use of blockchain technology nor the possible adoption of cryptocurrency payments.

Is AT&T planning to integrate bitcoin payments to its services? Will the bitcoin blockchain be used by AT&T as a backend component? Let us know what you think in the comment section.


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