After creating a Multis account, you can add other team members and set permissions and limits. Behind the scene, Multis is a multisignature Ethereum wallet. The company doesn’t control the keys, which means Multis can’t access your funds.

“From a regulatory point of view, it’s been very useful because we don’t hold assets and we can’t review and block transactions,” Sahaghian said.

Thanks to the multisignature design, you can create an approval workflow so that each transaction needs to be approved by a certain number of people on the team.

Multis supports Ethereum-based ERC20 tokens, which means you can also use stablecoins, such as USDC and DAI.

Once you have assets in your Multis account, you can issue payments to employees, contractors, partners, suppliers, etc.

Centralizing all your crypto transactions on Multi can be useful when you need to file your taxes. You can export all your transactions and hand them over to your accountant.

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Cryptoconvert: Why A 168-Year Old Banknote Printer Will Soon Be Churning Out Digital Drachmas For Central Banks
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Smartphone, blockchain technologies to open new frontier in fight against food fraud
https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/smartphone-blockchain-technologies-open-new-frontier-fight-against-food-fraud.html#utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=Food_fraud

Food fraudsters have found myriad ways to trick shoppers – from cheap horsemeat sold as beef to conventional apples labelled as organic. But new rapid testing and tracing technologies may help turn the tables on food crime.

The stakes are high for producers of expensive foods, which are particularly vulnerable to fraud. These include extra virgin olive oil, saffron, and organic produce.

‘People do not like to be cheated,’ said Michel Nielen, professor of analytical chemistry at Wageningen University & Research, in the Netherlands.

‘Once they start to face cases of organic products being fraudulent, for example, then they will be much more hesitant in general to pay additional money for organic products.’

It can take days or even weeks for laboratories to check for the presence of pesticides or antibiotics on samples collected in fields, abattoirs and shops.

By the time results come in, the goods may already have been sold and eaten.

‘We want to create a fundamental change in the world of food monitoring,’

The team is developing a device which can be attached to a smartphone to test food for the presence of allergens and pesticides.

The device will be able to detect if a product is organic or not, and whether it is safe.

Other hand-held testing technologies are also being developed. With so many people testing food much more data will become available, says Prof Nielen.

That means governments and industry will be able to react faster to a breaking issue and know more precisely which parts of the food chain to close down.

But they will also have to respond to a lot of issues raised on social media and in the general press by non-experts who have tested food and reached the wrong conclusions.

‘There is a high risk that people will develop a mistrust in (official) food testing and monitoring,’ Prof Nielen said.

One way to prevent this is for designated agencies to judge the quality of smartphone measurements, as more food testing technologies come on the market, he adds.

Other researchers are also testing big data algorithms to see how well they can predict food fraud.

They monitor potential triggers for food scams, which include harvest size, climate, political situations, food markets and the value of products.

Analysing the triggers helps them predict which parts of the global food chain are most likely to be targeted by fraudsters.

‘Crucially we need internationally agreed methods and standards for testing olive oil for fraud,’ she said.

If Italy and China use different ways to test the same olive oil, for example, and have different results, then consumers will lose trust in the product, says Prof. Gallina Toschi.

Europe has strong regulations governing the production and supply of olive oil.

‘But it’s not enough. We need to do more to (develop) new methods of control, to speed them up,’ she said.

Traceability is key, and blockchain technology will be important to track the oil from the olive grove to its point of sale, and include information about its quality from laboratory tests.

‘We need to work with honest producers to try to agree a uniform method that will give the consumer a way to check the authenticity or quality of the product from the label,’ said Prof. Gallina Toschi. ‘Producers are asking for this.’

Europe is starting to work on full traceability models

Microsoft has proposed a system that can mine cryptocurrencies using data collected from humans as they exercise or read an advertisement.

In a patent application filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Thursday, the American computer giant said sensors could detect activity associated with specific tasks – such as time spent viewing ads – and convert it into computer-readable data to solve computational problems, in much the same way as a conventional proof-of-work system.

“Instead of massive computation work required by some conventional cryptocurrency systems, data generated based on the body activity of the user can be a proof-of-work, and therefore, a user can solve the computationally difficult problem unconsciously,” the patent application reads.