Blockchain & Crypto people who I'm following

Follow the right influential people in blockchain & crypto world it's necessary if you want to really understand where is going the future of crypto, Ethereum, Bitcoin, blockchain and all the rest.

For sure there are so many good influencers, entrepreneurs and wise people in blockchain world, and it's not possible to know all of them. For example in Barcelona, we are a small community of people that is working in blockchain and I hope it will increase by the following months.

Here is my list of top influencers that I'm following everyday because their ideas, thoughts and knowledge. This is not a closed list and it's growing everyday, but time is limited... :)

Roger Ver: One of the world's first investors in Bitcoin startups.

Barry Silvert: Founder of DigitalCurrency Group.

Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss: Who doesn't know the Winklevosses brothers from Facebook movie?? There were one of the first investors in Bitcoin and now founders of Gemini Exchange

Naval Ravikant: Ceo-cofounder of AngelList.

Nick Szabo: Computer scientist and cryptographer known for being a smart contracts pioneer.

I will keep updated my list.

Happy crypto day

More about The Rentals Token project

Blockchain is changing so many business models to a decentralize ecosystem. With The Rentals Token project we are solving the existing problems in vacation rentals market:

The Rentals Token-Decentralized home sharing
network in blockchain

The Rentals Token is an entire ecosystem which includes a token,
a set of protocols and a DApp to provide a decentralized vacation
rentals marketplace. It uses blockchain technology
to solve the challenges and inefficiencies of the
home sharing and vacations rentals market.
The Rentals Token (TRT) smart token enables
an open marketplace to publish, distribute and
book vacational properties, while enforcing the rules set by
an owner, property manager or channel manager.
It allows for a significantly more efficient and secure
property rentals supply chain for all the players in the market,
from the owner to the guest. LaComunity with
more than 120,000 vacation properties is in a
key position to enable and promote the decentralization
of the vacation rentals and home sharing market.

The Rentals Token (TRT) is the
ERC-20 smart utility token exchanged in the
network, facilitating payments, escrow,
reputation and arbitration. The TRT Token
enables an open marketplace to any party in the market:
owners, property managers,
channel managers, sales channels and guests.

Solving the real challenges in the industry:
Some recent ICOs are trying to solve the last mile,
escrow payment and dispute management
in the vacation rentals industry. Those solutions fail
to add any value to the existing market.
The Rentals Network solves the supply chain challenge
of the industry: the lack of integrity and accessibility,
and the need for trust and lack of transparency.
Allowing for a global and trustworthy vacation rentals
and home sharing marketplace to exist.

Here you have the website

And some press articles of this week:  
Europa Press Periodico

Launching The Rentals Token

This week we have launched The Rentals Token. A Tokensale process that with all great team involved we have finished in 4 months. Average time is about 1 year. We have been able to do that thanks to the team: Joca, Fran, Juan Ignacio, all the team & Board in LaComunity (F.Soler, Jaime, Vicens, Diego, Adri, Alvaro, Toro, Toni, Nati, Smara, Judith...), Marketpay, RCD Legal, Roman y Asociados, Sergio, Jose, and much more. So happy for all of us.

I leave you with our first post in Medium:

Hello decentralized world!

The Rentals Network is a major disruptor in the vacation rentals and home sharing market, reducing costs for the customer and increasing efficiency for distributors.

The vacation rentals sector started with vacation apartments being distributed to customers through travel agencies, in a physical location with sales agents. Barcelona saw the birth of urban rentals in 2000, long before the appearance of Airbnb. The model evolved into a complicated supply chain with many brokers and distributors. Airbnb disrupted the market with an online service which enabled property managers (the owner, or the person or company in charge of the apartment) to publish the details and conditions of the apartment online and to receive bookings through a centralized website, all in a single closed and proprietary platform.

A large part of the vacation rentals and home sharing market currently goes through Airbnb, or through a complicated supply chain, in which property owners distribute their rental properties through various layered rental brokers. Those layers of brokers expose APIs for third party distributors to connect and download the list of properties and the business rules associated with them (discounts, availability, minimum stay, etc.) and publishing the properties on their specific websites where the customer will place their bookings, resulting in big inefficiencies in terms of real-time prices and availability.

This API-based supply chain becomes a complicated and inefficient model, in which each player invests time and resources to communicate with several APIs and the property manager/owner loses control of their property (pricing, discounts, availability, etc.). In this model disputes are very expensive and difficult to solve, as with any supply chain, with segregated data silos in each company participating in the process.

On the other hand, the Airbnb model, which is more simple but never a pure P2P model, only reaches a certain part of the market (Airbnb users) and is completely centralized, closed and proprietary. Airbnb imposes high fees and its own rules, and all other actors lose all control.

The Rentals Network is a token and a DApp with a set of decentralized protocols in addition to ethereum smart contracts, creating a decentralized open marketplace for any player as a model to disrupt the inefficient rentals supply chain, without the risks associated with closed, centralized and proprietary services such as Airbnb. The Rentals Token (TRT) is the ERC-20 smart utility token exchanged in the network, facilitating payments, escrow, reputation and arbitration.

LaComunity, as an advanced player in the vacation rentals and home sharing market with more than 120,000 properties in distribution, is in a privileged position to promote and lead the decentralization of the vacation rentals market. The Rentals Network and the TRT token will be developed by LaComunity, as a private company.