{"id":13809,"date":"2015-03-20T21:25:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T04:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13809"},"modified":"2015-03-20T21:26:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T04:26:44","slug":"can-ethereum-help-eliminate-corruption-and-bureaucracy-in-the-developing-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/can-ethereum-help-eliminate-corruption-and-bureaucracy-in-the-developing-world","title":{"rendered":"Can Ethereum help eliminate corruption and bureaucracy in the developing world? Could Ethereum One Day Transform Law, Finance, and Civil Society?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quoted: \u201cEthereum\u2019s developers believe their project will lead to the proliferation of programs they call \u201csmart contracts,\u201d in which the terms of an agreement are written in code and enforced by software. These smart contracts could carry out the instructions of a complex algorithm based on data feed\u2014such as a stock ticker. They could facilitate practically any financial transaction, such as holding money in escrow or dispersing micropayments among autonomous machines. They could be used to create a peer-to-peer gambling network, a peer-to-peer stock trading platform, a peer-to-peer social network, a prenuptial agreement, a will, a standard agreement to split a dinner check, or a public registry for keeping track of who owns what land in a city.<\/p>\n<p>Gupta predicts that these smart contracts will be so cheap and versatile that they\u2019ll do \u201ca lot of things that today we do informally,\u201d and take on a lot of the \u201cdonkey work of running a society.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the article here &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/19\/here-comes-ethereum-an-information-techn\">http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/19\/here-comes-ethereum-an-information-techn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quoted: \u201cEthereum\u2019s developers believe their project will lead to the proliferation of programs they call \u201csmart contracts,\u201d in which the terms of an agreement are written in code and enforced by software. These smart contracts could carry out the instructions of a complex algorithm based on data feed\u2014such as a stock ticker. They could facilitate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1502,43,40,1523,1528,39,20,1759,37,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-data","category-business","category-complex-systems","category-computing","category-disruptive-technology","category-economics","category-futurism","category-governance","category-human-trajectories","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13809","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\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}