WE THE FREELANCING MINIONS
Those of us reading or writing on a user-rewarding platform like Steemit have, more than likely, already heard of Freelancing. Freelancing over the internet has been made quite popular by websites like freelancer.com. These websites allow employer's to post jobs on their platform and freelance workers registered their can bid for the jobs. To take a slightly eccentric but endearing example, The employer's are like Gru from the animated movie "Despicable Me"and the freelancers are like his harmless-looking but highly efficient Army of Minions doing his bidding.
Image courtesy: boritokepek.blogspot.com and of course Pixar
The system works but it of course has some major issues and a promising blockchain startup BLOCKLANCER has taken up the ambitious job of solving them.
The major issues and the approach to solve them as outlined in their whitepaper is as follows:
1. TRUST
Quite often, the worker has to trust the employer completely for providing a fair review as well as for clearing the payments. This may not be such a problem for established workers who have been doing this for a long time but for any new entrant, it can get discouraging to face smug, high-handed clients who will simply not respond after the work is done.
This can make the minions very sad.!!
2.DISPUTE SETTLEMENT
In case of a dispute, there is no way to settle the dispute. You have the option of contacting the support of the respective website, but theses are not easy things to settle. This can lead to some pretty tense moments between Gru and the Minions.
Blocklancer solves this problem by introducing the concept of decentralized tribunals. Democratic voting is the answer. It incentivizes the correct decisions over time (majority decisions) and penalizes wrong decisions. This, I feel, is a very strong point of the system as not only the dispute will be solved by consensus, but the people forming consensus have an incentive to give there best judgement.
3. BREAKING CENSORSHIP
There is no chance of someone deleting/ blocking your account because of spam reviews. As its implemented on the blockchain, you own your account securely and immutably. So no censorship.
All in all, Blocklancer is a promising solution and alternative to a problem that many like us would like to be solved. So that there are no "Dissatisfied or Sad Minions" but only a happy group of workers making the world better.
Early ICO investors get the tokens that will run the network once finalized. The tokens shall be tradeable so you stand to make money on the investment. The ICO is just a few days away and now would be great time to catch it.
Do checkout the link to there website here: https://www.blocklancer.net/
Do checkout there demo page here: https://www.blocklancer.net/demo/profile/
All images courtesy the characters created by Pixar for there super-cool ''Despicable Me'' animated movies.
I am Manish Joshi from India and have just begun to explore the technological and investment opportunities in cryptocurrency and blockchain space. I wish to collaborate with learners who are nearby so give me a shout-out if you are from India. Especially a student interested in exploring this. I believe we can learn faster together and assist each other. I have found some of you from your posts related to technology and this goes out to you guys specifically. All in good faith. Let me know.
