Decentralised What?

Luke Shipley
2 min readFeb 18, 2018

Bringing clarity to comparisons ~ The R_Block Opportunity

Many have described R_Block as decentralised LinkedIn. Whilst we share some similarities with LinkedIn, we’re in fact quite a different proposition. We’re creating a platform which proofs workers experience and skills. We offer a referencing and rating dApp to help companies screen workers. Companies and recruiters will head to R_Block to either use our tools for screening or to interact in a proven skills network — with data that can be relied upon. LinkedIn is a social job network. Our network is a decentralised, semi-anonymous solution which allows us to hold sensitive information such as formal references.

The top 10% of technical professionals have given up with LinkedIn and the like. It’s not a level playing field to interact. R_Block will be a more appealing network to hold your work data and interact with companies, since you keep control of your data privacy/ownership and can get paid for it. This will help us attract the most in demand workers which alone will create a valuable network.

This is a deep dive AMA with the community hosted by TheGobOne where we go in depth into the technical solution and how we plan to tackle acquisition and growth.

We are closer in comparison to the work data aggregators, rather than the job boards. Generally speaking the difference with R_Block is the protocol level data the network will collect. We have developed a dApp which feeds peer-to-peer proof of work experience, skills and reputation data into the R_Block protocol. This ensures we have an indisputable dataset. Rather than pulling data from other sources with no controls over authenticity. This is recycling the same unreliable data sources and not solving the provenance problem. The provenance of the peer to peer proofs can be traced back to it’s source in the R_Block network. This is where we believe the value lies in creating an global standard work identity proof.

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Disclaimer: R_Block’s Coinception Crowdsale is not an investment opportunity in R_Block. This blog does not constitute investment advice, I’m heavily under-qualified to provide that. Whilst we borrow models from different funding approaches the Coinception crowdsale is an open opportunity to purchase utility tokens that represent no stake in the UK Ltd company R-Block.

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Luke Shipley

Co-founder of ZINC :::> https://zincwork.com/ <::: Creating sustainable work data with Zinc’s employee background checking tools.