KINEKT Terminals: Transaction Agnostic Blockchain Terminals

Let's go to continue this blog with another project. First of all, for who missed previous entries, what's a crypto money? To be fast and concise, it is a digital medium of exchange. And the next question would be... What's your use? It is also easy to guarantee the security, integrity and balance of your financial statements by means of a network of agents (segmented file transfer or multisource file transfer) that verify (untrust) each other called miners, which are, for the most part, general public and actively protect the network (the web) by maintaining a high rate of algorithm processing, in order to have the opportunity to receive a small tip, which is distributed randomly.

Today there are thousands of coins on the market, already in operation, such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, etc., but there are many thousands more that are about to leave. The former are called cryptocurrencies and can be purchased on many websites such as Coinbase, Localbitcoins, Kraken, etc. The others are the so-called ICO's (Initial Coin Offering), which can be obtained with significant discounts and price runs through small contracts and transfers through Ethereum. But there exist others those that have just been born, which are not even in the ICO phase, which launches campaigns to attract the public attention, these are the Airdrops. With this, we can get thousands of coins for free. I emphasize these because it's a way to win crypto coins even if the market is as it is. In this way, you never lose money.

However, not all of them are worth it. We have to read well what each project is dedicated to, what is its whitepaper, its qualified advisors, etc. As we all know, blockchain technology has gained popularity due to the hype about cryptocurrencies which has shaken many startups to launch their own cryptocurrencies even without convincing fundamentals. This trend has emerged because new entrants have been agiler in adopting emerging technologies compared to incumbents who are hampered by legacy systems. However, this competitiveness and this advantage enjoyed by the new players may be short-lived, as no economies of scale are taken into account. For this reason, that is why I choose the best of them through an exhaustive study of the main characteristics. After this brief introduction to the broad topic of Blockchain and Smart Contracts, we can already see that this technology opens many doors to new decentralized businesses and eliminates the need for expensive third parties. Many new companies are now working on this technology, and large companies are testing it in closed networks to collaborate directly with each other without the need for intermediaries. For that reason, there is a lot of projects that are starting to use this new technology. However, not all of them are worth it. We have to read well what each project is dedicated to, what is its whitepaper, its qualified advisors, etc.

As I said, blockchain technology has gained popularity due to the hype about cryptocurrencies which has shaken many startups to launch their own cryptocurrencies even without convincing fundamentals. This trend has emerged because new entrants have been agiler in adopting emerging technologies compared to incumbents who are hampered by legacy systems.

Introduction

Moving to the today's topic... Initially, bank card terminals were designed to allow card payments as an alternative to physical cash. To make this possible, bank card terminals and their associated networks were designed for the exclusive use and control of the banking industry and its related partners. However, the functional limitations of the original design of the pull payment processing made it difficult to adapt to current market needs, impossible to foresee at that time, in which merchants would prefer terminals capable of processing one or more different types of transactions in installments simultaneously.

In consideration of the entire current market situation and technologies available, I want to share with you the KINEKT Terminal Project, designed to help solve every aspect related to the shortcomings of bank card terminals, whilst at the same time offering significant additional value.