Funding Cleantech Programs With Cryptocurrencies (Blockchain Report Excerpt)
How initial coin offerings and other blockchain-related funding models can be used for cleantech ventures.
How initial coin offerings and other blockchain-related funding models can be used for cleantech ventures.
It’s worth elaborating on the post-Westphalian nature of cryptocurrencies for the purposes of this discussion. The Peace of Westphalia was a series of treaties signed in 1648 which formally ended both the 30 Years War and the 80 Years War, which were both Catholic vs Protestant wars and a war between the Roman Empire and a bunch of mostly Protestant nations.
In a world where ordinary people can trade solar energy credits without batting an eye, you must be talking about bitcoin and cryptocurrency.
The slow speed of transactions means that smart contracts aren’t particularly suitable for e-commerce applications right now. When you pay for something on iTunes, you receive access immediately.
Fresh off its victory in Sir Richard Branson’s 2018 Extreme Tech Challenge, the solar sharing startup Power Ledger launches new blockchain-crypto product.
Although the concept of blockchain is most likely to be associated in many people’s minds these days with cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, it is not just another word for Bitcoin — it is a fundamental, underlying system that can be used in sectors far beyond cryptocurrency.
Only 8% of Americans own cryptocurrency, significantly under the Cleantechnica respondent’s average of close to 40%.
If you listen to Tesla’s quarterly earnings conference calls, you’ve likely heard the voice of Deepak Ahuja, the company’s CFO, answering questions. Deepak typically provides a calm, soft-spoken counterpoint to company CEO Elon Musk. He’s also got a fascinating history at Tesla.
We want to see adoption of the Energy Web chain as the standard blockchain foundation—the digital DNA—of the many applications in development by utilities, energy companies, startups, and others.
Nori, a company which recently emerged from stealth, is creating the NORI token. It’s a cryptocurrency token that represents a ton of CO2 removed from the atmosphere and sequestered in one of a number of potential ways. This isn’t a cap-and-trade or carbon-tax system, but a market mechanism which values removed tons of CO2.