This document discusses using beacons and bitcoin to create a decentralized autonomous company (DAC) enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for a ski resort. Beacons would be installed throughout the resort to broadcast their presence to nearby smartphones. An app could then use the beacons to provide contextually aware experiences to users and charge micropayments to bitcoin wallets for resort services. This would allow the resort infrastructure to operate autonomously and earn funds for maintenance through ongoing small payments from users' wallets.

1. a DAC-ERP? Beacons and Bitcoins
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2. this deck is the context! beacon is the first attempt to make a local physical surrounding
YUROHS
marketing itself for mobile devices / people in vicinity

3. YUROHS
i am the context!
for the billing system of this resort (and some others too!)

4. (me now is)
YUROHS lift-me
context

5. YUROHS
jump off!
context Border

6. YUROHS
The Physical Web
• The Physical Web is an effort to extend the core superpower of the
web - the URL - to everyday physical objects.
• The premise is that you should be able to walk up to any “smart”
physical object (e.g. a vending machine, a poster, a toy, a bus stop, a
rental car) and interact with it without first downloading an app.
• The user experience of smart objects should be much like links in a
web browser: i.e., just tap and use.
• At its base, the Physical Web is a discovery service: a smart object
broadcasts relevant URLs that any nearby device can receive.
• This ostensibility can unlock exciting new ways to interact with the
Web.
• Source: Google OS project on physical web in Github see:
• https://github.com/google/physical-web

7. YUROHS
the context?
ü the real physical context for the
service delivered
ü the context where the payment is
earned
ü the context where the payment
transaction OK/confirm takes place
(i.e. all the time in my pocket as long
as I / my mobile phone am/is in the
vicinity of the lift and moving
according to the lift -line)
üBUT ...

8. YUROHS
the context?
What if ...
ü "I am the context for the lift"
ü For the IT system of this lift service
I am the context where it can earn
money for the services it delivers.
ü In "me" it finds a bitcoin wallet with
financial resources that may enable it
to continue it's existence as a
financially autonomous agent who is
doing well and earning enough to get
decent maintenance, new painting
once a year, etc.
ü The lift needs my allocation decision
i.e. - that I have allowed someone like
it to bill my wallet for the services it
offers ...

9. YUROHS
• Beacons are small devices that are
installed in a fixed location broadcasting
their presence to all smart phones around.
• They could be as little as 2 inches and as
far as 230 feet (approx. 70 metres) away
from your phone
• you may - I guess - install it as a sticker on
a wearable too
• You can get a good understanding of the
opportunities by visiting estimote.com - the
pictures on the left are from their website
• or check this estimote.com video:
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrRS8qRYXCQ

10. YUROHS• Apps can subscribe in the operating system (both iOS and Android) to
constantly listen for particular identifiers.
• When the phone comes into the range of a beacon or if the beacon
comes into the range of phone the app is notified about this, even if the
phone is locked or the app is not currently running..
• Beacon is thus a real-world context for your apps helping to create
contextually rich mobile experiences.
• Here as well the content is from estimote.com

11. YUR•OBitcHoinS is a cryptocurrency that has two very interesting features.
• A bitcoin is divisible to the eight decimal. The smallest portion of bitcoin is satoshi.
1 BTC = 10^8 satoshis = 100,000,000 satoshis
• Because of the structure of the transaction costs bitcoin enables me to pay for that
left foot shoe step by step if I so want.
• Or to be precise - it enables me to give my wallet the permission to pay 10 satoshi per
each step with that shoe. In one day my wallet would thus pay ~10.000 times 10
satoshis for the factory and the logistic channels who delivered that shoe to me

12. YUR•OWhHat iSs said above in the earlier slides may sound trivial.
• But if you take out that shoe and put there a 100+K Tesla or ski-resort infrastructure
instead ...
• ... and remember that in that blue cloud the transaction costs and externalities are
very different than it used to be in these environments you may start to get some
innovative business model ideas
• ... which may in the end change everything

13. YUROHS
the content:
Photo: Ski lift mechanism in the resort of Tsakhkadzor,
Armenia
photo: Colorado steamBoat ski resort
Photo: Arapahoe Basin Ski area
inspiration for the Story: estimote.com
the marketing proposal: yurohs.com/merchants

14. YUROHS Bitcoin / Beacons / beacon stickers
year 2020 DAC-ERP Solution for a Ski-resort
- a coop vision paper from -
Yurohs.com and
Coinbeacons.com

15. YUROHS a DAC-ERP?
- DAC stands for Decentralized Autonomous Company.
DACs are not legal entities and instead serve as a
metaphor for describing how transparent, irreversable
ledger systems such as Bitcoin operate.
- a coop design idea from -
Yurohs.com and
Coinbeacons.com