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One of the most intriguing projects involving blockchain I’ve noticed is e-Estonia which I would file under useful, however it may not qualify as solely a block
by ygypsy 8y ago
One of the most intriguing projects involving blockchain I’ve noticed is e-Estonia which I would file under useful, however it may not qualify as solely a blockchain-based product. Here the reasoning for incorporating the (KSI) blockchain is to prevent tampering.
Citizens have access to a number of digital services that includes but aren’t limited to voting, banking, and healthcare.
They've reported;
“Since 2014, more than 27,000 people from 143 different countries have been granted Estonian e-residency”.
I find this example to be exciting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Estonia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Estonia
https://e-estonia.com/ https://e-estonia.com/
https://estonia.ee/enter https://estonia.ee/enter
> A lot of the grand visions behind blockchain mania are indeed compelling, and I suspect something blockchain-ish will take off at some point in the future.
Totally agree. Recently had a discussion with a friend regarding what we felt would be an ideal approach to implementing blockchain and email. Essentially and selfishly how we needed it to behave.
Naturally upon doing a little bit of research lo and behold this endeavor had already been taken up. Exciting I found myself thinking, That’s pretty cool my friend agreed. Fast forward and read past a few more paragraphs and again lo and behold this project is an ICO and with this token you can send emails and blah blah blah.
Very disheartening (at least for me personally) to say the least. Not to say a project like this will fail, just saying that it seems the imagination for blockchain products as of now seems to be limited to just ICO’s.
- pingec 8y agoI keep hearing about this e-residency, but what can you actually do with it? What is it useful for?
- lagadu 8y agoIf their corporate taxes are lower than in your country (after calculating for what you have to pay according to the double taxation agreement the two countries have) then it's worth it opening your company there. Depends on how high the corporate taxes are in your country. If it's worth it, the big advantage is that everything can be done online.
- chosenbreed 8y agoYou can setup a company and base it from there. You can be in Timbuktu, Ulaanbatar, etc and be running a European company trading with parties all over the world. There are probably other benefits but that one clinches it for me ;-)
- strls 8y agoNot much, really. You can setup a company remotely, only to have to come to Estonia anyway to try to open a bank account and most likely get rejected.
- icebraining 8y ago"There is no blockchain technology in the X-Road" https://www.niis.org/blog/2018/4/26/there-is-no-blockchain-technology-in-the-x-road https://www.niis.org/blog/2018/4/26/there-is-no-blockchain-t...
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