{"id":73,"date":"2016-03-09T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.holytransaction.com\/airbnb-wants-to-use-blockchain\/"},"modified":"2023-01-14T02:26:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T00:26:49","slug":"airbnb-wants-to-use-blockchain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holytransaction.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/airbnb-wants-to-use-blockchain.html","title":{"rendered":"AirBnB wants to use the blockchain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some months ago <b>Don Tapscott<\/b>, author of <i>Blockchain Revolution<\/i> book, explained <a href=\"http:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/Blockchain-disrupt-uber-airbnb-itunes\">how blockchain technology could replace services like Uber and AirBnB.<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Y3z9WyWJrRI\/VuA8eOUARpI\/AAAAAAAAAQ8\/zfbCfCbpbEI\/s1600\/AirBnB.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"airbnb, blockchain, blecharczyk, \" src=\"https:\/\/holytransaction.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/AirBnB.png\" alt=\"airbnb, blockchain, blecharczyk, city am, \" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>In fact, at the <a href=\"https:\/\/holytransaction.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/world-economic-forum-blockchain.html\"><b style=\"text-align: justify;\">World Economic Forum<\/b><\/a> (WEF) held in Switzerland, Tapscott suggested:<\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>\u201cWhy do you need a 60 billion dollar corporation called Uber? You can have a real sharing economy which it would be a distributed application on the Blockchain [&#8230;] and the same is for AirBnb\u201d.<\/i><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<h3>AirBnB replies&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well, even if might not be because of Tapscott\u2019s suggestions, AirBnb is now interested in using the blockchain technology for its service.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/236040\/airbnb-co-founder-nathan-blecharczyk-talks-japan-business-trips-and-blockchain-with-harriet-green\">During a recent interview<\/a> conducted by <b>City A.M.<\/b>, in fact, Airbnb co-founder <b>Nathan Blecharczyk<\/b> annonunced the possible <b>blockchain<\/b> application among the company plans for this year.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">These were Blecharczyk words:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>\u201cI think that, within the context of Airbnb, your reputation is everything, and I can see it being even more so in the future, whereby you might need a certain reputation order to have access to certain types of homes. 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