It remains to be seen whether or not these initiatives will eventually supersede many of the smaller, community or hospital-based projects that currently support peer to peer exchange of information.
A different technological revolution – the digital revolution – is partially responsible for the recent return to peer-to-peer exchange.
From the enterprise it can march into the collaborative space among companies in a particular sector, where the flexibility of IP will enable groovy peer-to-peer exchanges beyond the reach of conventional telephony that costs a hundred times more.
Financial regulations help legitimize Bitcoin, but at the same time, they also take away many of the things that were seen as advantages of the cryptocurrency, including peer-to-peer exchanges that were free from international sanctions, fees and taxes.
The sharing economy, which is sometimes referred to as collaborative consumption, has become a household term — at least in the tech industry — that signifies peer-to-peer exchanges through technology.
In a nutshell, it means that parties can make peer-to-peer exchanges of data, money or anything else of value in any amount and in a secure manner.
This chapter discusses the Bitcoin key engineering elements that offer the possibility of a radically different approach for architecting electronic payment systems among other more sophisticated system such as crowd sales, crowd funding, peer-to-peer exchanges, and other side-chain capabilities.
It's peer-to-peer exchanges like this that illustrate how this group is changing the way people use the internet, and each other, to increase their musical rolodex.
With blockchain, there is no middleman in peer-to-peer exchanges; instead, users rely on a decentralised network of computers that interact through a cryptographic, secure protocol.
I honestly believe the groundswell of peer-to-peer exchanges across mobile and social platforms is catapulting humankind into a new evolutionary leap.
The growth of the "sharing economy," a loosely defined term generally referring to the internet-enabled peer-to-peer exchanges of goods, has brought with it a shift in the way we think about consumption.
