{"id":100290,"date":"2019-12-30T10:02:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T18:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/secretary-general-says-united-nations-must-embrace-blockchain"},"modified":"2019-12-30T10:02:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T18:02:16","slug":"secretary-general-says-united-nations-must-embrace-blockchain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/secretary-general-says-united-nations-must-embrace-blockchain","title":{"rendered":"Secretary-General Says United Nations Must Embrace Blockchain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/secretary-general-says-united-nations-must-embrace-blockchain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In September 2018, United Nations secretary-general Ant\u00f3nio Guterres gave a speech on the global lack of trust, or what he called a \u201ctrust deficit disorder.\u201d He just gave a similar speech, this time discussing blockchain specifically. The organization isn\u2019t just motivated to build a more sustainable world or reducing waste from their supply chain, but as American support has waned, donors are demanding assurance their donations are being spent for the purpose they were intended.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>United Nations secretary-general Ant\u00f3nio Guterres says the intergovernmental giant needs to embrace blockchain. In a statement provided to <em>Forbes <\/em>by the secretary-general\u2019s office, Guterres touted the technology first made popular by bitcoin as a crucial component of the organization that generate\u2019s $50 billion in revenue annually.<\/p>\n<p>Coming at a time when the president of China has touted blockchain as a national priority, and the $6 billion United Nations Children\u2019s Fund has started accepting bitcoin and ethereum donations for some of its projects, the statement from Guterres shows that cryptocurrency and the underlying blockchain technology is being seriously explored at the highest levels of the largest organizations in the world.<\/p>\n<p>While China seems largely focused on using blockchain as a way to prevent money laundering and better track its citizens\u2019 transactions, the United Nations work has been more focused on giving donors increased assurance their donations are being spent how they wish, while reducing waste in the organization\u2019s giant supply chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September 2018, United Nations secretary-general Ant\u00f3nio Guterres gave a speech on the global lack of trust, or what he called a \u201ctrust deficit disorder.\u201d He just gave a similar speech, this time discussing blockchain specifically. The organization isn\u2019t just motivated to build a more sustainable world or reducing waste from their supply chain, but [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1761,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cryptocurrencies","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}