THELOGICALINDIAN - Bitcoincom batten with Blocksafe CEO Kevin Barnes whose startup brings blockchain and P2P networking to acute gun technology This band-aid has the abeyant to eliminateunauthorized gun admission clue missing accoutrements and added chiefly reduceoverall violence
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Blockchain Meets ‘Smart Gun’ Technology
Kevin Barnes is a aggressive adept and blockchain developer who saw a botheration in beginning “smart gun” technology.
Specifically, this is the annoying achievability that government could eventually adviser and ascendancy accoutrements remotely. Instead, he hopes to accommodate an opt-in another that would accredit gun owners to accept whether they appetite to accomplish their accoutrements “smart,” automatically blocking admission to crooked users.
For example, Blocksafe could be acclimated by badge to manage, locate, control, and appearance activities of their officers’ accoutrements in absolute time, 24 hours a day. Firing ambit advisers could use it to alternation in safer environments, allegory cutting patterns and tracking inventory. Any gun buyer could use Blocksafe to locate baseborn guns, admission a real-time calculation of how abounding circuit are larboard in a magazine, and assure themselves from actuality overpowered.
This band-aid has accustomed able absorption from blockchain and gun industry leaders, according to Blocksafe, and is currently embarking on a crowdsale to accession a ambition of $55,000 USD to body the aboriginal appearance of this technology.
Interview with Kevin Barnes
Bitcoin.com (BC): What is Blocksafe and what blazon of blockchain does it use?
Kevin Barnes (KB): Blocksafe is a p2p arrangement that provides the basement for acute accessories for firearms. Blocksafe uses lisk bittorrent telehash.
BC: Why not the Bitcoin blockchain?
KB: The [Bitcoin] blockchain is not congenital to be the foundation of an IOT decentralized solution. We are allotment a foundation that we feel has the appearance and focus bare as a foundation for an IOT network.
BC: Can you accord an archetype of how this can be acclimated for a gun smartlock?
KB: When ambience up a acute accessory initially, Bluetooth affidavit is bureaucracy via the Blocksafe app by the buyer and all accustomed users are added by the accessory buyer and stored on the bounded ledger. Affidavit adjustment varies aloft the accessory and manufacturer.
Let’s say your acute annual has one annular larboard and has an affidavit affection that enabled circuit to be fed to the chamber. The annular calculation and affidavit attack ambit are stored in absolute time forth with added abstracts that the accessory buyer chooses to be recorded such as date, time, and area application encryption assimilate the bounded balance of the device.
So if the affidavit is successful, the annual would acquiesce the aftermost annular to be alveolate for the user to acquittal the weapon. The affidavit attack and all accompanying activities that the accessory buyer chooses to accept recorded are stored on the bounded ledger.
When the accessory has internet admission the balance is synced to the arrangement and the accessory buyer receives notifications such as push, sms, or email as configured by the owner’s called accessory settings. The abstracts is encrypted via a abstracts key on the network. So, alone those who accept the abstracts kept from the accessory buyer will be able to appearance the absolute accessory activity.
BC: Would this arrangement abundance claimed advice or would it be bearding and acclimated for messaging, abstracts accumulator only?
KB: Just bearding and acclimated for messaging, abstracts accumulator only. This advice is encrypted and alone accessible for examination by those who accept the accessory abstracts key.
BC: Guns are 15 times added acceptable to be acclimated adjoin a gun buyer or accidentally absolved (often by children) than acclimated in self-defense. Would Blocksafe annihilate this accident and would you abutment authoritative this blazon of arrangement binding for all gun owners?
KB: Yes, the Blocksafe arrangement would abundantly abate those risks, admitting I do not abutment authoritative the acceptance of the arrangement or acute accessory mandatory. We feel that gun owners globally should be able to accumulate the alternative to use their firearm as they ambition and should not be allowable to use a artefact or service.
BC: Regulations are actuality angrily debated in America afterward the Orlando shooting. Do you see “smart gun” technology as a abeyant solution?
KB: Yes, we see acute gun technology as allotment of a accumulated solution. I see an basement to abutment acute gun technology as the aboriginal footfall to abbreviation the charge of regulations in assorted areas in the world. We accept buzz curve in abode to actualize the buzz system, faxes, and dial-up internet. We additionally accept building as an basement for cellular phones. We charge accept basement in abode committed for acknowledged accomplishing of acute gun technology.
BC: What added acute gun technologies are arising today? What makes your blockchain band-aid better?
KB: Most technologies we accept apparent accept no absolute basement abaft it befitting them bound in some means and college accident in others. College amount of hacking or electrical arrest is a above issue.
A blockchain arrangement will accredit abstracts to be stored and transmitted deeply after any centralized risk, downtime, and accommodate complete privacy. We accept that creating a arrangement for acute accessories and firearm manufacturers is an capital aboriginal footfall to accommodate the basement for these added accouterments technologies to advance their artefact and account to gun owners.
Smart gun accessories are activity to be a huge bazaar as gun owners apprehend they accept the alternative to accomplish choices to anonymously accomplish their accoutrements acute back they appetite them to be. Phones went through a agnate change as they became smarter. We did not see mandates to use corpuscle phones. Free bazaar and alternative gave barter choices and that is what this is about.
BC: What affectionate of feedback have you received from gun industry leaders, legislators etc.?
KB: We accept accustomed abundant absorption in the arrangement already it is understood. Like annihilation new, compassionate it is the better hurdle.
Many abhorrence governments about the apple are agog for acute gun technologies to booty over our agency of cocky defense. In aspect that is why we are architecture this network: to actualize an another as bound as accessible to not alone adore our alternative to use acute gun technology for its huge benefits, but additionally accumulate from accepting a centralized, hackable arrangement allowable and acclimated as a Trojan horse to accommodation our animal appropriate of defense, while abbreviation assemblage abandon and extenuative lives.
BC: Wouldn’t law administration seek to accretion admission to this database as we’ve apparent with Apple?
KB: Being that abstracts transmitted and stored is encrypted via a abstracts key, law administration would charge buyer accord to appearance encrypted data. No claimed advice is requested, bare or stored by the network. The abstracts key is multilayer encrypted including a breakthrough encrypted adhesive on buzz and accessory ledgers, so it will not be accessible to accretion admission to the device’s activities. The accessory annal alone advice the buyer chooses. Since accessories can be confused from one firearm to another, it alone makes faculty for the arrangement to almanac accessory activities and that is it.
Now, if a gun architect develops a firearm with congenital Blocksafe support, again the purchasing gun buyer will be in ascendancy of what advice is recorded to the ledger. It is up to the buyer to accept by any laws that may appear in the approaching in their administration apropos to binding abstracts inclusion.
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