{"id":1061,"date":"2016-08-08T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.holytransaction.com\/2016\/08\/australian-postal-service-will-use-blockchain.html"},"modified":"2023-01-14T02:18:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T00:18:40","slug":"australian-postal-service-will-use-blockchain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holytransaction.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/australian-postal-service-will-use-blockchain.html","title":{"rendered":"Australian Postal service will use blockchain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-9gkvGE8IqVc\/V6i-KaLcFII\/AAAAAAAAAsI\/Byt2gATHjvkdKk0HIylAW1VE-GalrMJ5gCLcB\/s1600\/Flag_of_Australia_%2528converted%2529.svg.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"australianpostalservicewilluseblockchain.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-9gkvGE8IqVc\/V6i-KaLcFII\/AAAAAAAAAsI\/Byt2gATHjvkdKk0HIylAW1VE-GalrMJ5gCLcB\/s400\/Flag_of_Australia_%2528converted%2529.svg.png\" alt=\"australian_postal_service_will_use_blockchain\" width=\"400\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Australian Postal service<\/b> will use blockchain applications to solve problems related to identity.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a recent report published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/australia-post-ventures-prototyping-blockchain-potential\/\"><b>ZDNet<\/b><\/a>, <b>the Postal Service wants to create a private blockchain to be used for accreditation and e-voting.<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The company revealed this project back in March, when <b>CEO Ahmed Fahour<\/b> explained use cases related to digital identity.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also, a partner for the Australia Post Accelerator, <b>Rick Wingfield<\/b>, explained that<b> the distributed ledger could help the government to verify identities.\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">These are Wingfield\u2019s words during the <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acevents.com.au\/techingov\/\">Technology in Governance<\/a> conference<\/b> last week:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>&#8220;If we&#8217;re going to successfully digitize the economy and the hard parts of the economy that haven&#8217;t been digitized yet &#8230; the hard things like health, education and government services, those things require trust. If we&#8217;re going to digitize some of those things, then we need to know someone is who they say they are.&#8221;<\/i><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i><br \/>\n<\/i>Australian Government supports the Blockchain<\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This project came after the news that <b><a href=\"https:\/\/holytransaction.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/australia-investigating-banks-for-anti-competitive-behavior.html\">Australian government wants to support the blockchain<\/a>.<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government, in fact, published a statement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/australian-government-seeks-end-to-double-taxation-of-bitcoin\/\">earlier this year<\/a> where explains its intention to <b>simplify laws for Fintech companies<\/b> and to end the double taxation for bitcoin transactions.<\/div>\n<p>Open your free digital wallet <a href=\"https:\/\/holytransaction.com\/app#!\/signup\">here<\/a> to store your cryptocurrencies in a safe place.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Australian Postal service will use blockchain applications to solve problems related to identity. 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