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    BlockCypher's Karen Hsu and her NREL colleagues want to plug your washing machine into your neighbor's house (Photo: NREL).
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    Light bulb moment: Neighbors selling neighbors excess energy on blockchain

    BlockCypher and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have completed a trial program to see if blockchain can change the way households buy electricity

    May 21, 2020 /

    It’s an idyllic vision for the future: houses across the land generate their own power through solar panels, and make a tidy profit by selling neighbors their excess energy. Then reality kicks in. Executing all of these transactions at scale would be nothing short of nightmarish. Enter blockchain.

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  • Australia's maize contribution to the UN World Food Programme's Seasonal Targeted Assistance program, Chitse, Mashonaland Central Province, Zimbabwe, 2013. (Photo by Victoria Cavanagh, WFP - AusAID )
    Australia's maize contribution to the UN World Food Programme's Seasonal Targeted Assistance program, Chitse, Mashonaland Central Province, Zimbabwe, 2013. (Photo by Victoria Cavanagh, WFP - AusAID )
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    UN: Blockchain and other FinTech can save the world

    A United Nations report argues that new financial technologies like blockchain can reduce hunger, fight inequality, and eradicate poverty

    October 2, 2019 /

    Blockchain and other new financial technologies can help alleviate hunger, inequality, and poverty according to a new report from the United Nations.

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