A new player has entered the ride-sharing arena and it plans to take the industry by storm with a new approach. The company, “Uber killer” Arcade City , eschews Uber’s centralized control for a decentralized, driver-driven approach. The company has just begun integrating Ethereum into its system.
The founder of the company Christopher David, an activist and entrepreneur who innovatively used Bitcoin to crowdfund Free Uber . The swarm-based activism campaign was organized against the city of Portsmouth for banning ride-sharing,
CoinTelegraph spoke to Christopher David, Arcade City’s founder, about integrating the EthereumCT r: 26 Blockchain into the operations of a ride-sharing company
CoinTelegraph: What made you decide to use Ethereum?
Christopher David: Ethereum offers the whole package: a platform with everything we need, plus a strong community with solid governance. More than any particular set of technical features, the main deciding factor was that the vision of Ethereum aligns precisely with our own vision of peer-to-peer transportation and distributed logistics. Any problems that we’ll need to solve to implement our decentralized business model — like identity, reputation, payments , cryptoequity — we know there will be brilliant minds working to solve the same issues. Sealing the deal for us was the tremendous support we’ve received so far from Ethereum early adopters, even despite our early stages of integration. We know the Ethereum community will be great partners for us moving forward.
CT: Will Arcade City use Ethereum extensively? What will integration look like?
CD: We intend for Arcade City to be one of the first large ‘mainstream’ Ethereum companies. That will require tailoring its implementation to our userbase of non-technical users — riders and drivers — who will be engaged in peer-to-peer transactions all over the world. By beginning with a conventional ‘minimum viable product’ in the […]
