Opinion
By aligning hosts and guests in a shared marketplace, decentralized platforms will make good on the promise of the sharing economy.
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Airbnb News
Airbnb is an online platform for posting, searching and short-term leasing or renting of private property worldwide. The service was launched by Brian Chesky (CEO), Joe Gebbia (CPO) and Nathan Blecharczyk (CTO) in 2008. The company is not an owner of any real estate itself, it just works as a mediator between lessors and lessees and receives a percentage service fee in conjunction with every booking. Airbnb’s Bitcoin involvement started in 2014, when the company showed its interest in using blockchain technologies for the realization of its services for the first time. Some news also points out what risks might await services such as Airbnb if blockchain technologies continue to develop. Also, in 2016, in a survey conducted by one of the founders, it was discovered that most users would like Airbnb to accept Bitcoin as a payment method.
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The site claims to repair "the broken relationship between hosts and guests created by existing centralized home-sharing platforms."
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From price volatility to becoming the most valuable U.S. exchange, here is how well Coinbase’s first day of trading tracks with other companies.
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Airbnb pre-IPO contracts are now available on FTX.
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Meanwhile, crypto firms are genuinely trying to revive the badly-hit travel sector using distributed-ledger technology.
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Smaller firms in the sharing economy can find it difficult to compete with established, centralized platforms. A blockchain-based protocol plans to change that.
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A DeFi lending platform for cryptocurrency, Kava Labs, could be described as the “Uber of Bitcoin,” as the platform represents an Uber-like business model.
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Bitcoin can now be spent to book housing at Airbnb via Fold app gift cards alongside other big-name retailers such as Amazon, Starbucks and Uber.
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SFOX, a U.S. cryptocurrency dealer for large-scale investors, has raised $22.7 million in a Series A funding round.
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The sharing economy is still in its infancy and fragmented, but Blockchain may have the potential to fuel its growing popularity.
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A company is building a Blockchain-based system to eliminate fragmentation in the sharing economy – and creating a single app that gives users access to “any available asset they wish to rent, borrow or share.”
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Blockchain technology makes it possible to trust car-sharing services as it is not managed by people.
27935 Bitcoin is leading the digitalization of the global monetary system and is en route to competing against existing fiat currencies and the finance industry.
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There are big changes underway in the life insurance industry, with a project aiming to monetize assets that many people didn’t know they had.
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Smart booking engine outsmarts online travel aggregators and frauds, Blockchain in action.
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