{"id":60781,"date":"2018-11-08T12:20:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T12:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/blockchain-as-a-catalyst-for-good\/"},"modified":"2018-11-08T12:20:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T12:20:30","slug":"blockchain-as-a-catalyst-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/blockchain-as-a-catalyst-for-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockchain as a Catalyst for Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/blockchain-as-a-catalyst-for-good.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Blockchain and its ability to \u201cembed trust\u201d can help elevate trust, which right now, is low, according to Sally Eaves, a chief technology officer and strategic advisor to the Forbes Technology Council, speaking at The Linux Foundation\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/events.linuxfoundation.org\/events\/open-fintech-forum-2018\/\">Open FinTech Forum<\/a>\u00a0in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>People\u2019s trust in business, media, government and non-government organizations (NGOs) is at a 17-year low, and businesses are suffering as a result, Eaves said.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Eaves said, 87 percent of millennials believe business success should be measured in more than just financial performance. People want jobs with real meaning and purpose, she added.<\/p>\n<p>To provide further context, Eaves noted the following urgent global challenges:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1.5 billion people cannot prove their identity (which has massive implications in not just banking but education as well)<\/li>\n<li>2 billion people worldwide do not have a bank account or access to a financial institution<\/li>\n<li>Identity fraud is estimated to cost the UK millions of euros annually.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linuxfoundation.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/blockchain-as-catalyst-for-good\/\">The Linux Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blockchain and its ability to \u201cembed trust\u201d can help elevate trust, which right now, is low, according to Sally Eaves, a chief technology officer and strategic advisor to the Forbes Technology Council, speaking at The Linux Foundation\u2019s\u00a0Open FinTech Forum\u00a0in New York City. People\u2019s trust in business, media, government and non-government organizations (NGOs) is at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux-freebsd-unix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}