- From: William K. Santiago <william@wksit.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:38:08 +0000
- To: Interledger Community Group <public-interledger@w3.org>
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I see the relationship just like the example from Andreas Antonopoulos, where salaries will be payed by the second vs every monthly or weekly accounting cycle. Like the flow of water coming out of the faucet. On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 11:25 AM Daniel Bateman <7daniel77@gmail.com> wrote: > What is the benefit of using kWh (kilowatt-hour) as a bridge currency > instead of, for example, XRP? > > Daniel > > > > On Jun 29, 2017 8:05 AM, "Enrique Arizon Benito" < > enrique.arizon.benito@everis.com> wrote: > >> One of the reasons money do exists is that exchange of goods many times >> was slow (just one of the reasons). >> >> I think that due to the natural evolution of technology, we are becomming >> more and more dependent of electricity and its power supply, that is >> nothing more than another good merchants can "play with". Transport, >> industry, software, internet, services, blockchains, IA, robots, ... *all >> of them require more and more electricity and less and less of "anything >> else"*. >> In less than a century the skills humans have developed to profit from >> electricity is changing everything. >> >> The courious thing about this, is that *electricity can be faster to move >> than money*, so it could be the case that in a future electricity can >> compete side-by-side with "money". It has also some of the goods of >> blockchain. It's difficult to tamper it. Nobody can fake a 1Gigawatt power >> supply, since as in the block-chain case, you need a too much energy to >> cheat the others. >> >> Energy also as some other "goodies". It's price is very stable respect to >> its local fiat-money in dolars and euros, since it's production indirectly >> depends on many other variables and even state-funded infraestructures. >> >> I'm thinking that anyone could be more interested in a future in buying >> electricity "assets" than fiat-currencies, crypto-currencies, gold, coal, >> crude-oil or anything else, because is *electricity is becoming a warrant*, >> event from a very basic survival point of view ( >> http://fareastgizmos.com/led/new-led-farm-capable-harvesting-1-5-times-vegetable-unveiled-injapan.php >> ). >> >> It could be the case than more and more companies accept "electricity >> assets" (or any other siminal finalcial "stuff") as a valid payment >> methods. The kilowat-hour can become a more real thing than a dolar paper. >> Also people can be more and more interested in producing its own >> electricity that will even make the price more stable and, contrary to the >> blockchain, that electricity will not be wasted in "just mining" but used >> for non-financial purposes (and people outside the speculative market of >> financial crypto-currencies will really appreciate). >> >> What this all has to do with Interledger? >> >> I think that if the future move in this way, peers who want to send a >> transfer, let's say, in dolars from US to Pesos in Mexico, can be more and >> more biased to use electricity as stable exchange. This could affect the >> algorithms used for routing. For example, to search for a route it will be >> sensible to search for a route like: >> >> dolar <-> kilowat-hour in US <-> kilowat-hour in Mexico <-> Mexican Peso >> >> since it's to be expected that kilowat-hour in different countries will >> converge. >> >> In this way *routing will be lead by the assets in the midst*, with >> electricity as flagship and connectors trying to find the faster/sorter >> path to a kilowat-hour highway, then fallback to anything else. >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Enrique >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> AVISO DE CONFIDENCIALIDAD. >> Este correo y la información contenida o adjunta al mismo es privada y >> confidencial y va dirigida exclusivamente a su destinatario. everis informa >> a quien pueda haber recibido este correo por error que contiene información >> confidencial cuyo uso, copia, reproducción o distribución está expresamente >> prohibida. Si no es Vd. el destinatario del mismo y recibe este correo por >> error, le rogamos lo ponga en conocimiento del emisor y proceda a su >> eliminación sin copiarlo, imprimirlo o utilizarlo de ningún modo. >> >> CONFIDENTIALITY WARNING. >> This message and the information contained in or attached to it are >> private and confidential and intended exclusively for the addressee. everis >> informs to whom it may receive it in error that it contains privileged >> information and its use, copy, reproduction or distribution is prohibited. >> If you are not an intended recipient of this E-mail, please notify the >> sender, delete it and do not read, act upon, print, disclose, copy, retain >> or redistribute any portion of this E-mail. >> > -- William K. Santiago, C4 CBP WhatsApp +1-716-222-0886 https://about.me/wksantiago https://onename.io/williamsantiago My Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wksantiago Secure e-mail: williamsantiago@protonmail.com Public OpenPGP key: https://goo.gl/9XvzY5 https://keybase.io/williamsantiago
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