You may want to check internet access packages in the Himalayas or Sahara before you setup shop there Bert ;)
On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Bert Verhees <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14-11-17 16:02, Philippe Ameline wrote: > >> It can currently been argued that this competition led to concentrating >> miners in China... but what could possibly go wrong? >> > > Bitcoin is since a few weeks prohibited in China but it seems hard to kill. > > But still, I don't think the use of blockchain in healthcare can be > compared to the use of blockchain in currency, because, bitcoins is about > getting rich by creating as many as possible, while in healthcare they > exist to facilitate processes, and the number of processes create the > demand, not the wish to get rich. > > Another thing which came to mind, electricity is expensive because it > needs to be created near the place where it is going to be used, or it > needs to be transported. But blockchains for any purpose can be created on > any place on earth, also on places where energy is almost for free. For > example, windmills on top of the Himalaya, or solar cells in the middle of > the Sahara. Just transport the bitcoins, no need to pollute the world very > much. > > > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical_ > lists.openehr.org >
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