Blocktrak

 

In the vast Blockchain ecosystem there are thousands of Tokens or Coins. Behind many of these are ambitious projects forming around the idea of Decentralization. One of these is “District0x” and it aims to be a sort of Decentralized Craigslist. The difference is that people will vote for a District’s existence, instead of being forced what Districts to visit. This is what Decentralization projects are all about. According to their own White Paper:

“Districts exist as decentralized autonomous organizations on the District0x. Network, built upon a standard open source framework comprised of Ethereum smart contracts and front-end libraries, hereafter referred to as d0xINFRA. d0xINFRA provides districts with the core functionalities required to operate an online market or community. Namely, the ability for users to post listings, filter and search through listings, rank peers and amass reputation, and send invoices and collect payments. The d0xINFRA framework is designed to be open an extendable, allowing districts to be customized and granted additional functionality through the use of auxiliary modules.” 

Blockchain Projects for the People

Currently, anyone can vote for a District here. This is a clear sign that this is not just conceptual but a work in progress. It also shows us what District0x aims to become. As of now there are 3 Districts in the works. Ethlance, Name Bazaar, and Meme Factory.

Future Potential

I see this project as being an evolution of the Social Media age, in the sense that the users will have potential to gain more influence and lower the barriers of entry that currently exist. All new things and ideas are subject to ridicule especially in the vast Cryptocurrency world. Here we see clear evidence of a work in progress. District0x will certainly be one of the key players in the future of the Blockchain network.

 

 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology has setup its own digital currency department and in my view this is a harbinger of the coming importance of this new worldwide ecosystem. Here is what MIT says:

“The Digital Currency Initiative is a group at MIT focusing on cryptocurrency and its underlying technologies. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin enable open, trustless digital payments and contracts. In the spirit of the Internet’s wide reach, this technology, and the people behind it, have the potential to impact billions of people and become a crucial part of daily life. We seek to push the envelope on the development of this technology with fundamental research, while shedding light on the associated benefits, risks, and ethical quandaries. Beyond research centered at MIT, we also help support open-source cryptocurrency communities and diversity, and hope to foster broader academic community in this space.”

Use Cases

Blockchain will enable a radical change in how things are currently done on the internet, that ultimately means decentralizing what is currently available. According to MIT, these fields include healthcare and medical records, global rights management, decentralized publishing, user controlled credit identities, digital currency at central banks, securitized financing for solar microgrids. What they did not mention are real estate, law, online gaming, travel, crowd funding, e-commerce, and just about every other niche that could be decentralized. This is clearly a revolutionary new technology that has been created since Satoshi Nakamoto’s original white paper in 2008. You can read the original white paper here.

The 4th Industrial Revolution

It has been said that we are in the 4th industrial revolution. With the inception of Bitcoin, there has been an explosion of competing ideas on different platforms written in different coding language. There are well over 1,000 ideas and many of these are just that-conceptual. Some of these are actively used such as Bitcoin and Etherium. The space is not stranger to jokes & scams as many of these so called “currencies” have ridiculous use cases but have managed to raise significant amounts of money in a very short period of time. This has led to suspicion by many who are new to the space and rightfully so, but we cannot deny the technology behind some of these projects.