It’s not every day that we see a big player in the Web 1.0 and 2.0 space make a token-based blockchain network, and it’s even rarer to see anyone start one that caters to business-to-business services. However, Halsey Minor—a man who either founded or led ventures like CNET, Salesforce, Google Voice, Uphold, Voxelus, and OpenDNS—is the type of person who built his reputation by filling gaps in the markets he enters.
His latest project, known as VideoCoin, is an attempt to use blockchain technology and cryptocurrency to address a pervasive problem in the video streaming and encoding industry in the internet, incentivizing data centers with unused computing power to commit some of their resources in exchange for a reward through a complex combination between proof-of-work and proof-of-stake models.
Cryptovest had the pleasure and honor of speaking with him before his trip to the World Blockchain Forum in London and asking him about this new technology.
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