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Three Questions

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Real Estate Industry

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Something About Blockchain

Jay Carpenter

2018-02-16

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R.E. & Blockchain - Three Questions

Questions #1, #2 and #3:

  • TRUST?
  • MARGINS?
  • HUMANITY?

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R.E. & Blockchain - TRUST?

Centralized Trust:

Link: https://goo.gl/images/J6JPki

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R.E. & Blockchain - TRUST?

Centralized Trust:

Link: https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/microsoft-encarta-dies-after-long-battle-with-wikipedia/

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R.E. & Blockchain - TRUST?

Decentralized Trust:

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia

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R.E. & Blockchain - TRUST & Innovation?

Link: https://hypebeast.com/2018/2/uber-2017-4-5-billion-usd-losses

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R.E. & Blockchain - TRUST & Innovation?

Link: http://fortune.com/2016/10/31/airbnb-china-business/

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R.E. & Blockchain - TRUST?

Question #1:

Where are there centralized trust repositories in the Real Estate Industry?

  • Title?
  • Information?
  • Services?

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R.E. & Blockchain - MARGINS?

Link: https://www.coindesk.com/arizona-governor-signs-blockchain-bill-law/

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R.E. & Blockchain - MARGINS?

Question #2:

Where are the fattest margins in the Real Estate Industry?

  • In terms of money?
  • In terms of time?
  • In terms of friction?

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R.E. & Blockchain - HUMANITY?

Link: https://www.slideshare.net/EricTont/blank-arizona-real-estate-purchase-contract-residential

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R.E. & Blockchain - HUMANITY?

Link: https://goo.gl/images/RxzJHZ

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Question #3:

What are the essential human factors in the Real Estate Industry?

  • In terms of emotion?
  • In terms of creativity?
  • In terms of storytelling?

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R.E. & Blockchain - SO WHAT IS BLOCKCHAIN?

Blockchain Fundamental Characteristics

Three essential dimensions of Blockchain relevant to the Real Estate Industry:

  • DECENTRALIZED
  • TRANSPARENT
  • MONEY AND DATA MERGE

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QUESTIONS?:

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ADDITIONAL MATERIAL FOLLOWS:

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R.E. & Blockchain - BLOCKCHAIN DEEPER DIVE

Link: https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=470252#{"issue_id":470252,"page":10}

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Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

Link: https://coinmarketcap.com/ (February 15, 2018)

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Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

(INFORMATION ONLY: NOT A RECOMMENDATION!!!)

Link: https://blockchain.info/

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Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

(INFORMATION ONLY: NOT A RECOMMENDATION!!!)

Link: https://www.coinbase.com/?locale=en

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Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

Why is cryptocurrency so hard to understand?

Link: https://medium.com/@mariabustillos/you-dont-understand-bitcoin-because-you-think-money-is-real-5aef45b8e952

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Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

Let’s fool a blockchain!

Link: https://anders.com/blockchain/

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Unification:

Link: https://youtu.be/gQFpsIdRF6s

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Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

Unification:

  • Transporation
  • Blockchain
  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • Communications
  • Finance
  • Taxation
  • Insurance
  • Sharing Economy
  • Public Infrastructure Finance (Toll Roads and Taxation)
  • Hackathon Events (World Government Summit)

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  • Identity
  • Payments & Financial Services
  • Mapping
  • Environmental Sensors
  • Sustainable Energy
  • Dynamic Electric Power Distribution
  • Mesh or Peer-to-Peer Serverless Networking
  • Dynamic Broadband
  • Third Party Developer Application Programming Interfaces
  • Micro Services
  • Traffic Congestion Optimization via Incentives

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Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

More information:

Link: https://blockgeeks.com/guides/what-is-blockchain-technology/

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Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

  • ”Digital Gold”

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  • Alters Our Concept of “Money”

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  • Existing Blockchains are Prototypes

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Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

  • Cryptocurrency is the first killer application for Blockchain

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  • Similar to Email was the first killer application for Internet

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  • Cryptocurrency is profound

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  • Blockchain is even more profound

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Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

Link: https://www.congressionalblockchaincaucus.com/

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Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

Link: https://www.coindesk.com/arizona-governor-signs-blockchain-bill-law/

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R.E. & Blockchain

Jay Carpenter:

Jay Carpenter has been an active member of the Blockchain community for over three years. His primary interest in this space is in the realm of naming, numbering, addressing and identity.

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Jay is the founder of Desert Blockchain which is the largest Blockchain meetup in Arizona.

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He has an extensive background in technology, entrepreneurship and finance. He is a graduate of Arizona State University with an undergraduate degree in business with emphasis in finance. He obtained an MBA from the University of Southern California with an emphasis in finance.

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Jay is passionate about the emerging new realms of communications, finance and the societal possibilities associated with a Blockchain centric future.

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Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaycarpenter/

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Contact information:

  • Jay Carpenter

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  • DesertBlockchain.com

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