Blockchains: Building Blocks Of A Post-Capitalist Future?
On a small boat off the coast of Thailand fishermen take stock of their haul for the day. They whip out a phone, open an app and record essential information regarding the amount of fish caught, the location, the time and under what conditions. This is uploaded to a database with similar information from other fishermen; the fish itself is packaged with a tag linked to all the sourcing information.
The fishermen are credited with a cryptocurrency called Fishcoin, which they can redeem for costly data from their local phone service provider.