Taipei confirms that IOTA is something that interests them.... greatly!!!
City of Taipei confirms its testing iota tech for ID we've covered this before but it's nice to see the confirmation Taiwan's capital city of Taipei is working with the iota foundation to bring tangle Toyota's answer to the blockchain to its citizen identification plans Department of Information Technology Commissioner way Ben lien confirmed that Taipei would be participating with iota and local startup be labs for its digital citizen citizen card project telling coin desk that the effort was one of many proof-of-concept plans the city had Taipei will specifically be using iota Stangl ID service for several projects he said though he did not elaborate beyond the digital citizen project the digital citizen card will act as a tamper proof identification system protecting users from identity theft according to crowdfund Insider Li elaborated in an email to Coyne desk quote will be starting with related applications for digital citizen card that can be used as a platform we also seek to boost the authentication and integrity checks for municipality to municipality / institution to institution data exchange such as medical records that being said the Commissioner also said the city is open to other proposals which may help taipei further developments goals on becoming a quote a smart city we've heard that before from dubai and such the city will work with any other available technologies he told coin desk while Taipei is testing I Otis Tek the city is not yet using any type of cryptocurrency listen hmm the details of upcoming projects have not been discussed but iota has been invited to set up an office in Taipei to facilitate future projects nice for the moment that Department of Information and ology be labs and the foundation will continue discussing project proposals to establish proofs of concept the three groups formed a task force to work on the details before these projects Lee concluded after the POCs will evaluate the future results and see where we will go from there not bad guys well if you are a big iota fan no matter what the naysayers say this could be a little boost of confidence early in 2018 that iota is not only being used for things like VW and cars but now with Taipei could this mean that you need to stack up some more chips some iota chips you let me know in the Bitcoin dot pub or the comments section below & smash the like button for iota if you think I woulda could be the best coin for the Internet of Things it's a long-term model right