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0 pointsjstanley8y ago0 comments

If it's literally just "use cryptocurrency to pay for car charging", I don't think that counts as "blockchain-enabled" any more than, say, accepting Visa payments makes you "database-enabled".

(I've read it now)

EDIT: Not that the misleading headline makes it a worse project. I actually think "use cryptocurrency to pay for anything" is a good project. But it's not blockchain-enabled. And that's a good thing.

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0x006A8y ago

... uses the Share&Charge platform developed by MotionWerk. Share&Charge harnesses the Ethereum blockchain to track the charging transactions and exchange payment between customer and host.

https://shareandcharge.com/

Money can be cashed-in to your Share&Charge wallet by using credit card, PayPal...

In addition to the Blockchain technology we developed our Share&Charge App, which builds the point of intersection between the users and the Blockchain.

https://blog.slock.it/share-charge-launches-its-app-on-board...

At the moment, this token cannot be traded and is reserved for use exclusively within the Share&Charge project, however, an e-money license being sought by the payment provider xtech of the project could see its use extended to it to other fields.

amluto8y ago

As far as I can tell, the only thing blockchainy about this is "Share&Charge and Slock.it are working hard in surfacing the blockchain aspects of the application for our more technical users. For example, we hope to eventually be able to load separately generated private keys within the apps."

That's all?

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