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Official recognition of religions have different meanings in different countries.In Iceland, Asatru is listed as a foreign religion. This is hilarious because Iceland is one of the places ancient Asatru is native to. But we are neopagan in the sense that we have been doing reconstruction work since 1970.In Canada, Wiccans went through the 20 year waiting process to become official.In the US there's no such thing as a recognized religion in general so there are all sorts of individual registrations.I can go to city hall and register myself as clergy of any religion I want including ones that only appear in fiction. As long as I can find members that lets me charge to perform ceremonies until people file objections.Churches get automatic approval as charities unless people file objections. Several Asatru organizations have filed for religious charity status. It can be abused. The Universal Life Church lost its status in Hawaii.The US military will put whatever you want on your dog tags but there's a list. Not all that many people use the blank. As mentioned already veteran gravestones have been approved for Wicca and Asatru.

Once I had a neighbor across the alley from me come out his back door and cussed me out about talking to his dogs. I was in MY yard when I said hello. No where NEAR their fence.I talk to every dog I meet unless they are working. Dogs are the best “people” on the planet, in my opinion.What I did not know about this “man” is that he was a prison guard who had just worked over 15 hours, was tired, and had just gotten his dogs out of “jail”, Someone had let them loose earlier and they were picked up by the city. Neither dog had a City tag and did not have their animals registered with the city. 50 dollars a dog unless you are caught without the required registration like in this case. Now it was 200 dollars a dog plus room and board at the city shelter.He comes out saying,*What the h*ll is your problem, you stupid son of a b*tch?”Without getting upset I said in a childish voice, “You sure do know a lot of bad words, mister!” I then skipped back in my house like a kid.He had a perplexed look on his face as he went back in his house.About 5 minutes later his wife and sister came to my front door to apologize for his behavior. My wife was sweeping the porch so they spoke with her. They had actually thought I was “mildly retarded” by what he told them. My wife told them OK and thanked them for coming by.My wife came in asked, “Do I want to know what happened in the back yard?”I told her and we still laugh about that! Too funny! They have since moved. Good riddance.David

Blockchain and IoT are a marriage made in heaven. Blockchain can enable and augment a variety of application scenarios and use cases for the IoT. No longer are such possibilities too futuristic – as we will discuss in this post.IoT Meets Blockchain...Blockchain and Internet Of Things (IoT) are easily the two biggest buzzwords in technology at the moment. The IoT encompasses the world of sensors, moving objects like vehicles and any device that has embedded electronics to communicate with the outside world – typically over an IP protocol.Combine that with Blockchain – a distributed ledger architecture (DLT) pattern. Combining the two can facilitate the entire lifecycle of IoT devices and applications and prove to be the glue for business processes to act on these events. Consider the following scenario – a private blockchain for a driverless connected car that will enable secure and realtime interactions from the car starting with car startup, driver authentication, smart contracts to exchange insurance and maintenance service information and realtime location info to track safety.Blockchain-Based Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Fills in Five Critical Gaps in IoTIn such typical scenarios as the above, a Blockchain-based distributed ledger provides the trust, record of ownership, transparency, and the overall (decentralized) communication backbone for IoT.It needs to be noted that over the years specific IoT communities will develop their private blockchains that can store transactions in a highly secure manner for their specific applications. IoT architectures that relied on centralized servers to collect and store data will be able to write to local ledgers that will synch with other localized ledgers to maintain a single yet secure copy of the truth.All IoT transactions on the Blockchain will be timestamped thus ensuring that they are available essentially – for posterity.Next up, the true innovation of Blockchain – digital agreements or Smart Contracts. Smart contracts can then be applied to the data in the blockchain to enforce business conditions on the IoT interactions.Finally, one of the big knocks against IoT has been the relative lack of security standards. Blockchain due to its background on high-end cryptography helps with IoT security. A future post will discuss such a reference architecture.With that background, let us consider low hanging use cases across key IoT applications in verticals.Industrial manufacturing: The manufacturing industry is moving to an entirely virtual world across its lifecycle, ranging from product development, customer demand monitoring to production to inventory management. As devices and systems become more interactive and intelligent, the blockchain can serve as a plant level, regional level, and global supply chain level ledger. This will dramatically cut costs and drive more efficient just in time (JIT) processes enabling better usage of plant capacity and improved operational efficiencies.Connected and driverless vehicles: The Connected Vehicle enables the car or truck to behave as a giant Smart App. With the passing of every year, vehicles have more automatic features builtin – ranging from navigation, roadside assistance, etc. Blockchain will enable these devices to be tracked on the digital mesh thus enabling easy inter-vehicle communication as well as automatic tracking of fleet insurance policies, vehicle registration renewals, etcTransportation: IoT + Blockchain = Connected Transportation. A range of scenarios can be imagined around a connected mesh of vehicles that exchange everything from traffic information to avoiding gridlocks and bottlenecks. Extending this to global trade, this mesh can incorporate shipping, air freight as well as ground transportation to track shipments.Public infrastructure and smart cities: Smart devices are already being used to track the health of bridges, roads, power grids, etc. Blockchains can be used to interconnect these to share efficiencies and to conduct maintenance, forecast usage trends for power usage, pollution, etc. Another key area of usage would be to help remote areas such as forests to monitor natural incidents and to prevent catastrophic occurrences like large scale forest fires or farm infestations by blight etc.Financial services and insurance: Banks could use Blockchain backbone to track IoT enabled devices like ATMs, remote tellers to conduct maintenance. Insurance companies that have already started deploying drones to verify property claims in remote areas can use the Blockchain to validate and verify claims.Home and commercial real estate management: Using sensors deployed on both homes and commercial buildings helps with automated home and office monitoring. The use cases will diverge across both areas but many can be built on having a foundational distributed ledger capability.Smart contracts: Blockchain-based cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin enable two business capabilities at a high level – a) transfer of cryptocurrency and b) business rules that specify when the payout has to happen – typically once conditions that have been met – which satisfy fulfillment of contractual terms.These rules are termed “Smart Contracts.’ Smart contracts are applicable across all of these business areas and can be used to keep track of business rules and take actions based on thresholds that have been met or have been breached. E.g A driverless vehicle that has failed inspection can be grounded, non-payment of homeowners' insurance can trigger an alert to the homeowner's housing society, etc.Retail: Retailers are already using IoT devices and endpoints to help across the business lifecycle – ranging from the shop floor to tracking product delivery to store, to understand their customer traffic patterns, wearables, etc. The vision of the Connected Store with IoT enabled shelves, an ability for customers to perform more actions using smartphone apps to reducing checkout times with self-checkout, etc are all taking place. The Blockchain can augment all of these use cases by providing the critical link between retailer and consumer in a way that it automates away the middle man- be it a credit card issuer, or a central server. For instance, consumers can store their product preferences, sizes in a Blockchain and the retailer can access these seamlessly and securely.Does your IoT devices leverage blockchain distribute ledgers? Are you improving security with better customer experiences with blockchain-based IoT solutions? Are you performing IoT and blockchain pilots in your industry where the speed of assets is critical? he terms IoT is mainly used for devices that wouldn't usually be generally expected to have an internet connection, and that can communicate with the network independently of human action. For this reason, a PC isn't generally considered an IoT device and neither is a smartphone -- even though the latter is crammed with sensors. A smartwatch or a fitness band or other wearable device might be counted as an IoT device, however. Even dog tags! A project that I know implemented IoT tach into a word of pets. The project is called Pawtocol.This project is designed for the connected world and will launch the platform with it's first IoT device, Blockchain Dog tags. It will help you collect data about your pets' medical records, the food you feed them, even the amount of exercise they get. If your pet is ever lost anyone with access to a phone will be able to see pertinent data about your pet, such as foods to avoid, where it lives and the reward for its safe return.Pawtocol dog tags are readable at a distance and transmit exactly what the owner wants people to know. This can include the pet's name, any medical conditions, return instructions and even a reward using blockchain technology.Finally, it needs to be mentioned that there still exist critical gaps in Blockchain technology – whether one considers the public Blockchain on which Bitcoin is built or technologies like Etherium – in terms of interoperability, security standards, throughput, and mature developer tooling. These will need to be worked on over the next few quarters before we see production-grade IoT deployments on Blockchains.