Help Amazon Rainforest with... blockchain?Not a joke at all

No joke except what Iota calls their "Tangle" technology is variant on what mathematicians call Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG*) which is an alternative to blockchain rather than blockchain structure itself..but TL;DR summary of a key part is: Most of us environmentalists know "Carbon credits" can be scams at worst or at best exaggerated manipulated etc for corporate profit unless robust oversight and other protections; Iota is helping: indelible transactions, live monitoring &trustworthy data etc are key goals so we have(hopefully much)less climate-hurting "cheating" with carbon credits..

Already cool...But with DAG the environment wins 2nd way without energy intensive "mining" of Proof of Work of bitcoin..near free and nearly instant & plus scalable transactions since each person just uses their own cellphone to "confirm" other users' transactions --not miners for this calculation (disclosure I have perhaps ~50 to 200 bucks in IOTA and Nano cryptocurrencies each are a crypto that use DAG* Whether usefulness of the technology will mean anything at all for the price of the cryptocurrencies remains to be seen but I had to put in at least a symbolic amount into these since I believe in decentralization and interested in DAG's potential) Here's their summary 2:40 minute video by Iota Foundation's Director of Social Impact and Public Regulatory Affairs:

(*See chapter 0 of my Crash Course on Blockchain for Activists about DAG --Other chapters cover activist applications-- http://economicdemocracy.org/blockchain/ )

Published on Aug 23, 2019


IOTA's Director of Social Impact and Public Regulatory Affairs, Julie Maupin, discusses the role of distributed ledger technology from IOTA in protecting our rainforests, its inhabitants and the climate it supports.

The rainforests are home to more than half of all animal and plant species on earth, but more than 50.000 go extinct every year due to deforestation.

Without the rainforests our climate would spin out of control, so to counter this catastrophic development the international community has established carbon credits in an attempt to secure transparency when making environmentally friendly purchases or investments.

PROBLEM: But carbon credits in their current form are hard to track and easy to forge.

SOLUTION: With basic devices and novel technology, we now have the possibility to certify carbon credits, and avoid disasters and illegal deforestation. We can also empower the local communities that know best how to preserve the most precious part of the planet’s ecosystem.

Simple sensors can detect and monitor fires breaking out or chainsaws cutting trees. CO2 emissions can finally be precisely measured and evaluated. By logging all data onto the Tangle, we can act on this highly valuable and sensitive information in real-time, rather than on inaccurate and outdated estimations.

For more information on IOTA Technology visit: iota.org/social-impact



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