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The potential of blockchain technology:

"Crypto are not just currencies to pay and trade and certainly no longer just scam"


In this article, I would like to give you a little insight into the potential of crypto and blockchain for the real world. I want to show you that we are still at the very beginning of innovation.


In my opinion, 99% of people don't know that crypto is more than just Bitcoin $BTC. I am extra convinced that blockchain projects still have a huge potential because nobody really understands what blockchain can change in the world.


I've done an incredible amount of research on it. At the moment, it's all about the infrastructure on which more and more applications can be built for millions and billions of people in the future. That's why I can't recommend more than $BTC and $ETH as an asset as a long-term investment at the moment.



Applications in the future of blockchain:


Finance:Finance will remain the biggest area. But honestly, if a technology is going to distributively improve finance, which hasn't changed in 50 years, that's no small thing.


Blockchain technology is revolutionizing the financial world by introducing decentralized, transparent and secure systems that make traditional intermediaries (huge banks etc. that only we in Western countries can halfway trust) obsolete. This innovation not only promotes more efficient and cost-effective processing of transactions, but also opens up new avenues for financial inclusion worldwide.


2. Tokenization of assets:


Tokenization of assets has some of the greatest potential. Even the most powerful man in the world and CEO of Blackrock (8 trillion euros in assets) Larry Fink has often emphasized this.


Tokenization is fundamentally a digital representation of value. Blockchain and smart contracts allow anything with value and a potential market (at least two parties), whether digital or real, to be traded and managed securely, transparently and without the need for a central authority. These technologies are revolutionizing the exchange of assets and information by setting a new standard for trust and interoperability in an increasingly interconnected world.


Not only real-world assets such as real estate, stocks or art can be tokenized, but anything that has value. Yes, I can imagine that in 10 years all companies will issue something like a share as a token, but probably so user-friendly that investors won't even know which blockchain it runs on.


Even our data has value. We have given away our data (privacy) for a few cheap features on Instagram or Facebook. With blockchain, your data can really belong to you and you decide to whom and for what compensation you give it away. Keywords are decentralized data storage and decentralized social media platforms. Even our health (sporting activity) has a certain value for governments and health insurance companies.


Other areas and applications in brief:


3.business services

  • Transparent supply chain management systems
  • Automation of business processes using smart contracts
  • Product tracking and proof of authenticity
  • Management of intellectual property and copyrights
  • Formation and operation of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs)


4.healthcare

  • Secure storage and exchange of patient data
  • Traceability of medicines and medical devices
  • Improved data exchange between healthcare facilities
  • Management of research data and support for clinical trials


5.identity management

  • Creation of digital identities and e-passports
  • Implementation of KYC and AML processes
  • Increasing data protection and data security


6.government and public sector

  • Development of e-government solutions and digital citizen services
  • Use in elections and voting systems
  • Management of public registers and documents
  • Efficient subsidy management


7.Agriculture

  • Digitization of land titles and administration
  • Traceability in sustainable agriculture


8.energy and environment sector

  • Trade in renewable energies and emission rights
  • Monitoring energy consumption
  • Development of decentralized energy distribution systems


9.education and research

  • Securing and verifying academic qualifications
  • Transparent research data management
  • Development of decentralized education platforms


10.art, media and entertainment

  • Use of NFTs for digital artworks
  • Copyright and licensing management
  • Decentralization of media distribution


11.technology and infrastructure

  • Integration of IoT with blockchain
  • Improving network security and data protection
  • Decentralized data storage solutions


12.legal system

  • Use of smart legal contracts
  • Digitalization of legal processes
  • Support for arbitration proceedings and conflict resolution


13.trade and e-commerce

  • Creation of trustworthy trading platforms
  • Product tracking and authenticity verification
  • Customer feedback systems and ratings


14.insurance

  • Automation of claims and risk assessment
  • Development of flexible insurance models
  • Prevention and detection of insurance fraud



I will be happy to answer any further questions.

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Thanks for one of the few posts in the crypto area here that doesn't polarize 👍. Hope the post is written without AI and not copied together
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There is so little on the internet about this topic that I had no way of getting proper results with chat gpt. So I even came up with the idea of sharing my own information and research with you.
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Well, I haven't dealt with the subject of crypto. So of course I have no information beyond the mainstream news, so to speak.

But I don't understand it either.
My data is mine and only I can decide who gets it. Okay. But whoever has it can still pass it on. So it's only limited protection.

I also don't understand the limitation of Bitcoin, for example. If there really are only these 21 million and person X suddenly owns 50% of them at some point and then somehow 10% are lost, then there won't be enough for the population. So then there's these Satoshi or whatever they're called, which then also become more. And then at some point I have to pay with 0.000001 Satoshi or a new subspecies is created so that it can be divided again and again and again. So I somehow devalue it anyway. So I don't (superficially) see any added value.
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@DividendenWaschbaer Simply explained, blockchains are decentralized databases that check everyone (who wants to) for errors or fraudsters, so to speak, and therefore receive a reward. It is therefore more worthwhile to protect the network than to attack it because otherwise you will lose all your tokens again. On some blockchain, for example, it is determined that a wide variety of data belongs to you and what kind of information it is. From your liked posts on Instagram to your cookies on Google to the data about you from your doctor. Your data is then tokenized, so to speak. You can then confirm to the decentralized social media instagram that they are allowed to process and sell your data, but in return you also want a share of the profit in the form of a token from the platform or something. You transfer the right to view this data to the platform, but you are still the owner of the data on the blockchain. With social media applications like this, it is probably more difficult to withdraw data because you have already been rewarded for voluntarily releasing it.

With medical records, you can theoretically only have your data read in if you have authorized it. Not even the company behind the website can access your data without your permission. As the owner, you can also withdraw your permission or tell the smart contract that the doctor no longer has access to the documents if, for example, you have transferred the money after the doctor's visit.
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@DividendenWaschbaer It is very important to understand that it is very unlikely that everyone will pay with Bitcoin in the future. Bitcoin is a scarce digital commodity and therefore more comparable to gold or silver. Bitcoin is far too slow and expensive for transactions. Currently €25 per transaction. This was done on purpose so that the energy spent on creating new bitcoins is high as the value behind bitcoin.

Bitcoin maximists are very much against the high national debt. Bitcoins cannot be created out of thin air like fiat money today without any effort or input. Maybe in the future bitcoin will be massively backed by central banks as a scarce good to a state currency but there is still a long way to go. As a pure currency, I don't think so.

Hypothetically, you can rob the network with 51% of all bitcoin. But who has 400 billion at hand haha. Moreover, if you are the only one with 51% of all bitcoin, then they are no longer worth anything or your 400 billion are no longer worth anything. This scenario is less likely than a central bank diluting your money so that it is also worth less.
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Incidentally, the 21 million bitcoins have only all been created in about 130 years. Very few currencies have lasted that long.
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@DividendenWaschbaer Are you serious right now?
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@DonkeyInvestor The topic is also difficult to understand at first glance. But I think it's good that he's at least asking.
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@xxxlinasxxx This is about something personal between McRib and me 🍔
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Everything can, nothing has to. So many possibilities and the first thing that comes to mind are fax machines in German offices and the like
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@GoDividend You're absolutely right. Germany has such a poor digital infrastructure. But that also shows that we haven't missed out on crypto. We are still at the beginning. That's why I've halfway turned my portfolio away from the traditional, outdated financial market and plunged into crypto. "first mover advantage".
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I invest in crypto myself,
but I don't understand the point of tokenizing shares.
Whether my shares are now on a blockchain or with Clearstream? What are the advantages or disadvantages?
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@Der_Dividenden_Monteur If blockchain technology had immediate advantages, the industry would already be using it en masse. All the application examples mentioned in the post sound convincing, but things have been going quite well there so far without blockchain 🙃
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@randomdude To be honest, few things sound convincing to me: e.g. things that have long been implemented, such as a trustworthy marketplace, Amazon.
Or the complete paragraph on agriculture.
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@randomdude To be honest. Blockchain technology is really complicated. The infrastructure is still in its infancy. And without infrastructure, it's difficult to run large applications on it. Just think about the beginning of the internet. How long it took from a technology that was developed by universities for the military as a communication protocol until email was developed. 5 years. And another 20 years later, the World Wide Web was developed. We all know that the Internet is not just about email and the browser.
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@Der_Dividenden_Monteur It's always about decentralization, security and automation. Direct trading without anyone acting as an intermediary. Proof of what is yours and what is not (special assets for countries that are not heavily regulated, closing the last gaps in special assets), ... but there is currently nothing in the crypto sector that could offer this. Therefore, a rather theoretical construct.
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@randomdude the advantages lie primarily outside of states and companies in decentralization (in which companies and states naturally have little interest)
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@Der_Dividenden_Monteur Amazon collects your data, takes a huge margin for putting products on it and if a retailer sells the product cheaper elsewhere, the product is often no longer displayed well on Amazon. That's what I call a monopolist through and through.

Imagine a blockchain on which everyone can sell their products and everyone can buy the products via any website. The blockchain or some company behind it does not take any revenue from the fact that it was sold on it, but only when payment is made, for example, you pay with the token of the blockchain. This means you always get the best offer because all buyers and buyers are on it. You can also transfer the digital representatives of your goods back and forth between the blockchains.

The buyer gets the goods at a better price because no more money goes to just one company like Amazon, which really only brings buyers and sellers together.

The seller doesn't have to pay a middleman to have their product displayed and they automatically have a larger market demand.

The creators of all sorts of websites that access this blockchain and get all sorts of service providers are rewarded in some way because they increase the value of the blockchain platform by participating in the system, so to speak.
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@xxxlinasxxx The creators of these websites that access the blockchain are then called Amazon 😘
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@xxxlinasxxx For me, what you describe is the internet and not a blockchain. It's all there. If you only buy from Amazon without comparing - it's your own fault.
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@DonkeyInvestor No, not at all. What really makes a market? Exactly right, only the buyers with the demand and the sellers with the supply.

The blockchain brings sellers and buyers together without a profit-oriented company like Amazon, eBay, but also something like air bnb, uber, Lieferando. They don't make their own products except for a few from Amazon itself. They provide a service and make billions or really huge amounts of money.

Now imagine that in the future these individual companies will no longer receive a share of the profits from a sale but will only be paid for a service such as offering a user-friendly website. Everyone can create a website that then accesses this blockchain and thus accesses a large trading center. Amazon could be rewarded for having a warehouse everywhere and a good delivery service. But everyone could form partnerships and offer themselves as a delivery service or logistics company as a service provider. This would greatly reduce monopolies and increase innovation.
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@xxxlinasxxx 2 points:
1) Someone is offering the blockchain. This is the new Amazon. Unless the blockchain really is completely decentralized. However, this is currently only approximately the case with Bitcoin and I don't see any possibility of implementing something like this technically in the short term.
2) You are talking about websites that then visualize the offers from the blockchain and are somehow remunerated for them. That's exactly what Amazon is doing today.
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A technology that can apparently be used anywhere?

But since when do companies want users' data to really belong to the users?

And how does the use of this technology lead us to a logical investment?

What value does Bitcoin, for example, offer if it is not used as a means of payment, but only as "storage security"?

Why shouldn't there be similar opportunities that make existing projects unattractive for us?

Does Bitcoin actually lose its attractive properties if most speculators no longer want to have anything to do with it, if 1 BTC only corresponds to the energy costs it causes?

Questions upon questions.
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@Gerit and the right questions. Only the users have an interest in the data belonging to them. Accordingly, for me, crypto is a technology for the population and no one else.

The value of Bitcoin is a decentralized and tamper-proof network. Its monetary value is unknown.
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Thank you for your contribution! I fully share your opinion.
The financial sector has been the "laggard" in the S&P in recent years and is absolutely due for a disruption.
I would also add the gaming and gambling sector, as these will probably be the areas in which crypto will generate actual profits first. The forecasts are dizzying ;-).
Another area would be AI & cloud computing. The world will need networks in which the CPU power provided can be monetized.

However, thanks to your contribution, perhaps 99% of investors won't "miss" the big opportunity ;-)
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@MrBlueSky I completely share your opinion.

You're right, gaming and gambling will probably get a lot of attention this year.

Decentralized AI services and cloud computing for everyone, secure and trustworthy without huge data centers is also really exciting. Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Amazon AWS are again such blatant monopolies that they make margins of 50%. It's not even guaranteed that they won't sell on the company data or process it in their AI systems. Blockchain can tackle this disruptively. Anyone who has a service, AI, computing power, etc. can participate. Unfortunately, most projects are very overrated. Hardly anyone from the retail sector has even heard of $RNDR, $TAO or $AKT. But that will certainly change in the next 3 years.
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@xxxlinasxxx agreed :-)
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Quellenangaben?
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@Koenigmidas have no sources. That's what I've learned from everywhere over the last two years.
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Great compilation. I would be interested to know what crypto is available for the various subject areas.
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@MrMister none. Decentralization is lacking everywhere. And then I can also directly use a centralized and therefore more efficient, simpler, ... technology.
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@MrMister Unfortunately, @DonkeyInvestor is right. The crypto world is always moving from one token to the next. But if you want to capitalize on the potential of the technology and innovation, I can only recommend $BTC and $ETH for beginners. But I also have my eye on $LINK. Chainlink links the real world with its assets to the blockchain world. They have been working on this for 6 years. They have developed a protocol that anyone can use and anyone can build their services on it with their tools. They have developed this protocol in cooperation with SWIFT.

Peaq is also a very exciting project. The blockchain for
applications in the real world. The token will be released in the next few weeks. DePINs (Decentralized Infrastructure Platforms) and dApps (Decentralized Apps) for mobility, connectivity, energy and more can be developed on it. The peaq project was founded in 2017 and was spun off from Advanced Blockchain (first German blockchain company on the stock exchange) in 2020. Based in Berlin. Bosch, Airbus, Frauenhofer and Tesla work with peaq.
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@xxxlinasxxx I once invested in Sol and took 89% with me. Now with a small savings plan in BTC.
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@DonkeyInvestor Every network starts "centrally" - including BTC and Eth. If a project is designed for decentralization (and by no means every project is), this can only be achieved over time as the network grows.
If a network is well adapted and decentralized (i.e. BTC & Eth.), then it is already "expensive" and the profits have been made.
The trick is to identify networks that have not yet reached this status, but have the potential to get there.
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@MrBlueSky Which network has succeeded in doing this? I don't know of any. If only because behind the networks are individuals, associations, companies, ... are behind the networks
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@DonkeyInvestor Well, BTC & Eth are already relatively decentralized.
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The established companies currently don't want the data to belong to us because they make a lot of money from it. But if, for example, a decentralized Instagram becomes popular where everyone who posts, comments or just uses the application is rewarded, no one will go back to applications without rewards and without data security.

This development of such business ideas where the data is again owned by the users will be monetized differently. For example, if the business takes off and many people use the application, the value of the application increases and so does the price of the internal token or the price of the advertising that runs on it.
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The cool thing about crypto is that companies don't have to be established and then listed on the stock exchange; as an investor, you can invest in projects right from the start. Of course, this makes it very volatile with little market capitalization. But you can also invest today in what I consider to be secure investments for the next 10 years. projects such as $BTC, which is currently the leading player in crypto and is regarded as digital gold. Or $ETH which is a token that represents the value of all other projects related to blockchain and crypto for now. With crypto, the volatility is very difficult for most investors. Especially when you know that the value can fall sharply in a bear season. Nevertheless, in terms of risk to reward, I don't think it would be wise to invest even 10% of the portfolio in $BTC and $ETH.
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I don't think gold is really worth 12 trillion because it looks nice and is used as a conductor in some technologies. Only 200 thousand tons of gold have been mined so far. This scarcity is really the value behind gold as a store of value. You don't have to trust any central bank not to print more gold just like that (compared to fiat money as a store of value). You can be sure that the work you have done will be worth the same for the next 30 years when you exchange your gold again.

Even the German Kreditbank, blackrock, vaneck, ark Investment, tesla and even the German and US government have part of their reserves in Bitcoin.

Of course there is also speculation in bitcoin, but I think the future is much brighter when you consider that gold has a market capitalization of 12 trillion euros and bitcoin only almost one trillion euros.
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Cheaper and more efficient is already wrong. A BTC transaction currently costs €2.50, much more than a euro or USD transaction. Then a block has to be generated for each transaction, which is inefficient. A little side note: Larry Fink is by no means the most powerful man in the world, that is and remains Xi Jinping. Projects have already shown that BTC is unsuitable as a normal currency. The US government or any other state will never give up its sovereignty. Nevertheless, good contribution, BTC still has potential.
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@Alwin_ I think it's even €25 per transaction in some cases, which would also depend on volumes etc. should also depend on volumes etc.
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@Alwin_ Blockchain is not the same as Bitcoin!!!!

You should have understood that by now. I was clearly talking about the applications of blockchain and smart contracts as a technology. Yes, a Bitcoin transaction costs €25, but not everything should be paid for with it in the future. It won't work because the block size is not sufficient. But if you look at systems like those on Ethereum layer 2 such as Polygon or solana, xrp or cadano. They are as fast, cheap and energy efficient as Visa transactions.
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My problem with Ethereum is that it takes too long to develop. All the ideas are all well and good, but it's like Stuttgart 21.
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@Investor_in_Jogginghose Ethereum is a bit slow but still faster and better than any of the traditional companies dealing with blockchain. Ah yes, right, there are hardly any, because it is so complex and a lot of responsibility lies with the decentralization and security of the system.
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never thought to read such a good article about blockchain technology here on getquin. i think the majority here doesn't quite understand the benefits yet but that's not a bad thing because soon a lot of things will run on the blockchain ;)
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Why would you need a blockchain to implement these things? A blockchain is nothing more than a distributed database. In order to enter external information into a blockchain, central actors are again required who must be trusted to ensure that the information is correct. Blockchain as a technology is extremely inefficient, but was necessary to solve the double spend problem and create a trustless network. If someone writes data to the blockchain, how will the other network participants be able to verify that it is correct? And if it doesn't need to be verified at all, why do you need a blockchain and can't do it with an efficient database?
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1) Bitcoin only, everything else are start-ups (centralized companies)
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Thanks for the great post! So much potential coming! I am investing in $EVDC, it awaits big gains!
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Blockchain technology has already been used in many sectors since Industry 4.0, but this is completely separate from cryptocurrencies, so I wouldn't really see this as a separate point for crypto.
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I love this overview with the potential for blockchain technology.

I just wonder if investing in coins would be the best investment to benefit from this potential.

Just like bits and bytes. We need many of them. But where is the money made?
Same for sand.

I am looking for investment opportunities in companies that are investing in blockchain application and will benefit from it through the technological and practical advantage, speed, cost, safety…
Or companies that develop blockchain technology and applications.
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Does anyone know of serious investment opportunities in companies that are developing blockchain application, offering benefits through the technological and practical advantage, speed, cost, safety…
Like for large scale transactions in logistics or for real estate deed transactions.
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