Bitcoinist: Fabio, how can these three technologies (Algorithms, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency) help small business to survive and compete against big corporations?FZ: Lets imagine an extreme use case, like that of a farmer working somewhere in a small Southeast Asian country and struggling to competitively sell his produce and make decisions on volumes of crops to be planted, timing, logistics of deliveries, etc. We, at ORS, can empower such a farmer to run his enterprise optimally through collecting data (so-called Big Data) from various sources such as weather forecasts and soil quality and run algorithms for predicting crop yields and for dynamic pricing optimization (even linked to commodities futures exchanges, if meaningful), that would help in such decision making.
The blockchain can be used to give transparency about the whole food chain, giving him an advantage due to consumers sudden possibility of easily checking the uncorrupted quality of the farmers biological products. And if he can get paid via cryptocurrencies, no distributor will ever again be able to abuse his position of power when not paying him in time. This is only one such example of how the ABC technology building blocks can be used by the small guy to keep and run his business successfully against large players. This approach can help us create a much more equal society. This is our vision for the future.
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