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RE: Toward a pan-EU blockchain infrastructure
All the above are based on the mass-adoption of the blockchain (in general) and individual responsibility. I’m only trying to imagine implementing blockchain in some of Romania rural areas :) good luck with that.
Thanks for sharing some real content and info about the machine that EC is.
I probably need to explain it more clearly. Indeed my bad, I've mixed a bit the "consumer" part with the "provider" part.
In most of the above EU citizens need not bother with anything blockchain! It's about "consuming" digital services. No need at all to even hear the word "blockchain" being pronounced !
There are two practical use-cases being set up on top of an actual policy (that really exists).
The first use-case is "EC gives money to install free WiFi hotspots. Where do you, EU citizens, want them installed? To answer the question, download an app, open it up, zoom in the map and pick X (e.g. X=4) points on the map where YOU think a WiFi hotspot would be useful - in your village, in front of your house, etc."
That is all that's requested to "consume" the service offered!
As you can see from this description, no EU citizen needs to know that behind the scenes, the back-end system collecting the potentially millions or even tens of millions of anonymous "voting" messages is a blockchain system ! All they need to know is that there's an app to download and install on their smartphone, open it up, zoom in a map and put their fingers on 2-3-4 points where they would like to have a free WiFi hotspot installed (by a telecom company, with EU money)
The second use-case is purely internal to the way the EC funding machine works. Today it is mostly based on paper and "declarations of conformity". Here the proposal is to do away with "humans signing papers and sending them to be verified and filed by the EC" and replace that antiquated verification system with direct on-chain verification of actual WiFi connections. This would be done by the EC systems because it is the EC who pays and who wants to prevent the telecom companies installing the WiFi hotspots from scrounging, doing shoddy work, installing poor quality equipment that is not usable, etc, etc.
Now in the "provider" part - that gives the title to the post, the "pan-EU blockchain infrastructure", the volunteers involved will probably be more technology-inclined than the average population.
But there's no need for the blockchain to be run by a lot of people either - a "normal size" one like Steem is ok, we don't need the number of nodes of ethereum or bitcoin
Thank you for the details. So if I get it right this time... practically EC is looking into ways to use smart contracts. The final product of this use may be a sort of voting method (user friendly) and of controlling the internal machinatios and proceedures needed to control and manage the expenses.
Precisely ! Thank you for your feed-back, it tends to indicate that I manage to explain it more clearly in the end ! :)