Ron Williams-UpChannel- Simplifying Token-Based Transactions In The Emerging Market
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2018
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Ron Williams is with Spire, a company that has integrated with UpChannel in the development of pre-installed applications on smartphones sold in emerging markets. Spire’s ICO is currently underway and will lead to the launch of a digital currency wallet application that will support Bitcoin and the Spire token.
The ultimate goal of the app is to simplify the user experience by allowing access to and use of several different tokens through just one: the Spire token. Williams sees the simplification of crypto-based transactions especially important in emerging markets where consumers may be experiencing smartphone and blockchain technology for the first time.
Spire will be partnering with several categories of digital apps that will be useful to this market, such as identity, basic financial and basic banking services. While the user will be using the Spire token for transactions, the tokens associated with each digital app will be used behind the scenes.
To learn more about Spire’s benefits and future plans, visit spireprotocol.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.0 | Future Technologies Hoyts to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this podcast. Almost here means these |
| 0:14.9 | technologies are now here and starting to be used or just around the corner for |
| 0:19.6 | Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:27.0 | Coming to Dallas, Texas, September 14th, 15th and 16, 2018, the blockchain and |
| 0:39.3 | expo. This is going to be a gigantic conference of over 5,000 people. |
| 0:45.0 | We're going to be talking about blockchain and its applications. |
| 0:48.0 | We're going to be talking about quantum computing, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and several other future technologies that are poised |
| 0:55.7 | to and actually changing our lives as we speak. |
| 0:59.5 | Here's why you should attend. |
| 1:01.2 | As you may know, early adopters are the ones that investigated and profited |
| 1:05.2 | from things like the Gold Rush in the 1800s, from the dot-com boom in the 1990s, from the internet |
| 1:11.3 | boom in 2005, from the |
| 1:13.0 | smartphone explosion in 2007, |
| 1:16.0 | from the real estate boom that ended in 2008, |
| 1:19.0 | and of course from the Bitcoin boom |
| 1:21.0 | that started in 2012. |
| 1:22.0 | Early adopters act now. They don't wait till |
| 1:25.1 | later. They go out west first and they're covered wagons. They find the biggest |
| 1:29.5 | gold nuggets. If you consider yourself an early adopter and you want to find the biggest nuggets, then you owe it to yourself to attend this upcoming conference. |
| 1:38.0 | Blockchain is going to affect how we control and store our medical data, how we send money around the world, how we bank and |
| 1:45.2 | more. |
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