This week’s The Lay of the Land proof-of-location podcast is with Ariel Seidman, CEO and co-founder of Hivemapper. Listen to the podcast to find out what problem Hivemapper is solving, how it got started and how it’s going. 

Hivemapper’s goal is to provide higher quality maps at an affordable price.  In our conversation, Hivemapper explains their formula for achieving this goal.

TL;DR
Hivemapper plans to go live at the end of 2022. Hivemapper’s outward-facing dash cams (currently on pre-order) will take pictures of local street views.  The dash cam’s location is proven through encrypted GPS and via the Helium hotspot network. Helium’s network uses radio signals to provide internet coverage to IoT devices and record data on the Helium blockchain. For privacy, the dash cam owner’s ID and dash cam location are de-identified.  Anyone can own part of the Hivemapper mapping network by using the dash cam to earn the mapping network’s native token, HONEY, or by purchasing HONEY on a cryptocurrency exchange. HONEY runs on the Solana blockchain. Hivemapper Inc. builds APIs on top of the mapping network and The Hivemapper Foundation (a 501(c) independent of Hivemapper Inc. personnel) oversees the governance (technical decisions, economic decisions, and licensing) of the Hivemapper mapping network.

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Chief Technical Officer, Lucas Henning, (formerly of Deloitte Blockchain Lab) speaks about SUKU's solution, their partnership with Avery Dennison and their multi-frequency radio frequency tags to track product, like Covid-19 test kits and PPE, through the supply chain. SUKU are also working to provide decentralized finance and open finance solutions for individuals in remote locations.

www.suku.world
telegraph: sukuecosystem

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Michele Amoretti, Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Parma in Italy, walks us through his academic paper on Proof of Location. He explains how he and his colleagues designed a peer-to-peer proof of location system and shares cutting edge research in both blockchain location based systems and quantum computing.

A brilliant episode!

Link to the paper:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.00174.pdf

Michele's Twitter handle: @_oldville_
Michele's Google Scholar Account: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=michele+amoretti&oq=Michele+amor

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Streetcred is a gamified mapping app that leverages a dedicated community to create accurate, real-time place data in exchange for bitcoin prizes.

Chief Technical Officer of Street Cred, Diana Shkolnikov, walks us through the inspiration, the founding and the focus of StreetCred's fun, new mapping game.

website: streetcred.co

blog: streetcred.co/blog

instagram: streetcredapp

email: [email protected], [email protected]

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Tyler Mulvihill, co-founder of Consensys company Treum, discusses the proof-of-location solutions being built at ConsenSys. ConsenSys, founded in 2014 by Joseph Lubin, is the world's largest pure-play blockchain company on the planet.  Treum brings transparency, traceability and tradability to supply chains, agtech, auctions and non-fungable tokens using the permissionless, ethereum blockchain or a permissioned ethereum instance.

Listen as Tyler recounts stories of the World Wildlife Fund's bait to plate trail tracking wild tuna across the world, verifying organic hemp and ensuring the supply chain for personal protective equipment (PPE)  masks during the Covid-19 era.

Find out more at:
website
https://treum.io/
https://consensys.net/
https://entethalliance.org/

Follow and contact Treum at:
twitter: @MulvihillTyler
@treum_io
@Consensys
@EntEthAlliance

email: [email protected]

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylermulvihill/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/think2win/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dragos-rizescu-9499a987/

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Bridie Ohlsson shares how the free and open source software solution, Geora, provides agriculture supply chain participants with the lowest-cost digital infrastructure.

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Internet of things (IoT) technology is often about software.  LoRaWan technology is different.  It was invented in 2015 and is definitely a hardware play to begin with, then a software/network technology and maybe, one day, in the not-too-distant-future blockchain will run on top of it too.  Begin unpacking the new, low cost IoT solution, LoraWan (long-range, low-power, wide-area-network) with Laurens Slats of The Things Network.

• www.thethingsnetwork.org - The Things Network Website
• https://github.com/thethingsnetwork - The Things Network Github 
• The Things Network Conference https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/conference/
• Resources require to organize your own The Things Network Conference on tour https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/conference/on-tour/

Twitter: @laurensSlats

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If you love blockchain but hate the pollution caused by Bitcoin then meet the new earth-friendly, proof-of-coverage blockchain; Helium.

Will Helium’s environmentally friendly proof-of-coverage solution be the blockchain that saves the planet? 

Join me in conversation with Dal Gemmell, Helium’s Head of Product Marketing and Planning, as we explore the details of this ambitious, disruptive and innovative project. What are the opportunities Helium hopes to harness and the hurdles it has to overcome? Dal graciously answers these questions and more in the latest episode of Lay of the Land.

www.helium.com
whitepaper.helium.com
chat.helium.com
t.me/helium_network
twitter:@helium
twitter: @jdgemm

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FOAM is changing the way we locate things in our world; less middleman, more peer-to-peer. 

In this episode, Arthur Roing Baer, FOAM's Head of Growth, shares both the details and the big picture for proof of location in blockchain technology.  

https://www.foam.space/
map.foam.space
developer.foam.space
https://twitter.com/ArthurRoingBaer

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Digital Identity is one of the most important elements of web 3.0 but so far it has proven to be a very difficult problem to solve.  With a solid backgrounds in finance, government and blockchain technology Jennifer O'Rourke and Cab Morris understand what is important in both identity solutions and in blockchain technology.  In this episode they share the details of their digital identity solution, some possible use cases and why it's only a-little-bit-blockchain.

https://myattestid.com/
https://twitter.com/attestID/

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At the junction of Computer Science and Geographic Information Science, GIScience lecturer Dr. Ben Adams is uniquely placed to witness and comment on blockchain technology's convergence with geographic information science. Explore how the merging of these two disciplines can help improve our lives or how their unintended consequences might make things worse. Listen for his subtle, yet profound, comments on privacy and data quality. For all aspiring “geochain” researchers, take note of his a call for articles for The Journal of Spatial Information Science at the end of the podcast.  Enjoy.

The Journal of Spatial Information Science - josis.org
The Geospatial Knowledge Exploration and Acquisition (GeoKEA) Research Group
University of Canterbury Geography Department
Guillaume Chapron, The Environment Needs Cryptogovernance, May 2017, Nature
Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G)
Blockchain startup references: foam, platin, blockcities.co

[email protected]

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