187 THINGS THE BLOCKCHAIN IS SUPPOSED TO FIX

https://www.wired.com/story/187-things-the-blockchain-is-supposed-to-fix/

“Things Blockchain Technology Will Fix

• Bots with nefarious intent
• Skynet
• People not taking their medicine
• Device storage that could be used for bitcoin mining
• Insurance bureaucracy
• Electronic health record accessibility
• Health record storage security
• Health record portability
• Marine insurance risk
• Cancer
• Earning money on personal data
• Pensions
• The burden of car ownership
• Inability to buy anything with cryptocurrency
• Better marketplaces for nautical shipping services
• Better ways to advertise to your friends
• Better ways to trade forex with your friends
• Ownership shares in ancient sunken treasures
• Poverty
• Complying with Know Your Customer laws
• Complying with Anti-Money-Laundering laws
• Complying with securities laws in token sales
• Censorship
• A use for QR codes
• Rewards for buying alcohol by subscription
• Tracing water supplies
• Dearth of emergency responders
• High cost of medical information
• Improved digital identity authentication
• Managing real estate workflow
• International real estate purchases
• Physical branches for crypto banking
• Physical branches for crypto exchanges
• Private equity
• Venture capital
• AIDS, also online sales of classic Japanese domestic cars
• Efficiency and transparency at nonprofits
• Incorporating local preferences in decentralized banking options
• Boosting sales for local businesses
• A digital-only investment bank
• Containers to transport sensitive pharmaceuticals and food
• Protecting consumer information on mobile
• Helping mobile phone users monetize their data
• Not enough interconnection in the world
• Complexity and risk in the crypto market
• Expensive AI research
• Counterfeit goods
• Connecting “innovation players” and “knowledge holders”
• Movie industry’s slow and opaque accounting practices
• Global supply chain’s $9 trillion cash flow issue
• Trust in the global supply chain
• Economic crisis
• Cash flow problems at small and medium-sized businesses
• Improving the use of data in the transportation and logistics industries
• Poverty among African farmers
• Transparency in the food supply chain
• Ad fraud
• Fake news
• False news
• Settling payments faster
• Speeding transactions
• The unbanked
• The underbanked
• The bidding process in art and collectibles markets
• Assessing the value of collectibles
• Diamond industry’s high banking and forex fees
• The illicit diamond trade
• Availability of digital games
• Currency for eSports
• Currency for eSports betting
• Currency for sports betting
• Storing scholarly articles
• Health insurance providers billing processes
• Currency for healthcare providers
• Shortage of workers with advanced tech skills
• Lack of diversity in tech
• Elder care
• Rights management for photographers
• Content rights management
• Simplifying the logo copyrighting process
• Ticketing industry’s “prevalent issues”
• Crowdsourcing for legal dispute resolution
• Securing financial contracts
• Paper
• Automation
• Control of personal data
• Control of personal credit data
• No way to spend crypto
• Advertising for extended reality environments
• Human suffering
• Security for luxury watches
• Authenticity in cannabis sales
• Crypto rewards for cannabis-focused social media site
• Crypto payments for rating cryptoassets
• Crypto payments for taking surveys, watching videos and clicking links
• Crypto rewards for video game skills
• Crypto rewards for time spent playing video games
• Buying, selling and trading your social media friends
• Crypto rewards for social media sharing
• Free mobile data for watching ads
• Crypto rewards for watching entertainment content
• Gold-backed cryptocurrency
• Crypto-backed gold
• Metals-backed cryptocurrency
• Precious metals-based cryptocurrency
• “Tokenizing” real world items
• Nashville apartment buildings
• Monaco real estate
• Financial infrastructure for trading within video games
• Checking ID for purchases like alcohol
• “Uber for alcohol” on blockchain
• Inefficiencies in cargo delivery
• Branded tokens for merchants to reward customers
• Fraud and corruption among non-profits
• Better transparency at non-profits
• Better transparency around impact investing
• Bitcoin mining uses too much energy
• Home appliances mining for bitcoin while not in use
• Bitcoin mining using hydropower
• Large corporations’ carbon footprints
• “Decarbonizing” electricity grids
• Climate change
• Trust in governments
• Trust in corporations
• Trust in social networks
• Trust in media
• Universal billing system for travel industry
• Decentralized Uber and Lyft
• Online gambling not fair
• Online gambling sites take commission
• Helping retailers hurt by Amazon
• Online retail fraud
• Paying for things with your face
• Streamlining interactions among shoppers, retailers and brands
• Linking content across computers, tablets and phones
• Ranking apps by their value
• Aligning creativity and recognition for content creators
• Improving payments for artists on Spotify and Pandora
• Online piracy
• Improving the technology of the Russian gas industry
• A blockchain equivalent of Amazon, Groupon and Craigslist
• Too many non-value-added costs
• Unregulated prison economies
• Standardizing the value of advertisements
• Advertising not transparent enough
• Old real estate practices
• Free public information from silos
• Speeding the rendering of animated movies
• Selling items for crypto instead of regular money
• Borders
• Man-in-the-middle hacks
• Security sacrifices that come with innovation
• Scams, fraud and counterfeits
• Tools to build decentralized apps
• Blockchain infrastructure
• Removing barriers separating blockchains
• Safety in buying and selling blockchain tokens
• Improving privacy in online file storage
• ICO projects could benefit from the “wisdom of the crowd”
• Improving privacy of blockchain
• Decentralized database for decentralized technologies
• Improving trust and confidence in blockchain system
• More cohesive user experiences across blockchain and the cloud
• Democratizing gold trading
• Giving investors more control of their assets
• Simplifying the cryptocurrency transaction process
• Trading indexes as tokens
• Improving crypto safekeeping solutions
• Simplifying ICO investment, trading and cryptocurrency
• Improving institutional-grade crypto asset management
• “Painstakingly slow” manual crypto wallet process
• More open global markets
• Easier way to invest in real estate
• Easier way to invest in Swiss real estate
• Easier way to combine smart contracts with crowdfunded home loans
• Easier way to borrow against crypto holdings
• Faster porn industry payment options
• Lower porn industry payment fees
• Identifying and verifying users in online dating
• Improving traditional banking services for crypto world
• Cryptocurrency based on Game Theory, IBM’s Watson, and other theories
• Better social network + blockchain + AI + human touch
• Improving content streaming on the blockchain
• Supply chain transparency
• Increasing public sector trust of cryptocurrencies
• Education around blockchain technology
• Blockchain not mainstream enough”

Stephen