Thoughts From Under a Tree is a weekly recap of the blog posts I’ve done, any thoughts that I have roaming in my head, my ever-growing understanding of blockchains and cryptocurrency, or anything in general. This whole recap session is meant for all you followers to get a better understanding of my thought process, how my brain works, and what advice you guys might have for me.
This article is the first part to a milestone in my thesis proposal research, where I go in depth with the real estate situation in North Korea. There are North Koreans that found loopholes to dealing in real estate despite the government owning the housing. I speculate how there is going to be a housing boom post-reunification because of an abundance on untouched ground that North Korea has.
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This article highlights my anecdotal experiences on how my conversations about cryptocurrency and blockchain go with my acquaintances, siblings, and friends. There is a general air of skepticism that goes around, as most people that I talk to bring up BitCoin before either of the latter terms. What they understand is that BitCoin is a cryptocurrency, but not what other cryptocurrencies are or what they're intended on being used for. Furthermore, they wouldn't know what blockchain even is. This post contemplates on how this technology can be recognized by others.
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This article continues the first post about how I can plan the framework for constructing that unified Korea area using the concept of Proof of Location. As the DMZ area is most likely going to be restructured, it grants an opportunity for a decentralized system to take full responsibility for this incubated system. FOAM is introduced as a precedent to how the GPS system can be approached from a decentralized perspective.
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This article summarizes the initiative taken by Akon and his cryptocurrency, AKoin. What he's trying to do is fund the construction of a new city entirely cryptocurrency. I also compare and contrast the initiatives by AKoin and UnityCoin side-by-side and how both situations deal with a developing country, where Africa is still getting their economic system together while North Korea has been lagging behind in terms of their economic strength.
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This article discusses a topic that can be spread across many different categories and are slightly interpreted differently depending on the situation, but there is a common theme throughout all of them. Just because someone has either committed a crime in the past, or showed signs of controversial behavior, should they be stopped from promoting or denied opportunities from singing? It is generally understood that most people have made mistakes in their life, but Korean netizens have taken things very far, and will condemn kpop idols and celebrities over the most minuscule things.
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