New Historic Image Blockchain App In Build

( Coming Soon )

Works on

iPad

Tech Stack

Swift

Blockchain Technology Demonstrator

We’ve been interested in the blockchain since the early 2010’s when Tom mined some bitcoin on his Dell Inspiron PC (talk about missing an opportunity).

We are really focused on consumer centricity. This is where us & the blockchain haven’t ben the best of friends.

A Solution Seeking A Problem?

We’ve found blockchain implementations to be largely clever tech – but largely irrelevant to consumers.

Hence, apart from acting as a denominator of wealth – there aren’t many day to day use cases.

It’s just a database…duh!

The bottom line is that the blockchain is just a publicly held database – where:

Data can be trusted (i.e: not be altered once uploaded)
Data will be available forever… (well whilst the thousands of blockchain nodes all over the world remain part of the network)

Mixing It Up

Not every part of what you build has to be on the blockchain.

Generally, most things in life are reliant on a third party – and often if the app developer no longer supports their creation, it will likely die.

But having the data available after the fact (data that is often consumer owned) is very useful if housed on the blockchain for access in the future.

What Does A Million Memories Do?

We are building an iPad app where users can upload historic images to the blockchain – specifying their location and time in history.

Big Ben, London, in background. Recovering U.S. Soldiers taken to see sights around London. Taken c. 1918.

The above image is currently housed on a proprietary website. If the website closes, the image is lost.

A Million Memories instead stores the image, time taken, description and coordinates on the blockchain.

What’s in a proprietary app + server

iOS iPad App

Apple Login
Payment (to cover upload costs)
Upload functionality
Map display functionality

Backend Server

User Account (there is no need for the user to have a blockchain wallet
App / Blockchain Upload Functionality

What’s on the blockchain

On Avalanche Blockchain

Register of uploads
- Arweave image URL
- Description
- Year
- Coordinates
Blacklist of problematic uploaded content

On Arweave Long Term Storage Network

Image

What happens if the app is shut down?

Anyone could build a viewer to access the data, or the data could be viewed directly via blockchain hosted block viewers.

This doesn’t have to wait until the app is shut down. A third party could elect to build say a web viewer at their leisure.

A historic organisation could implement part of the blockchain smart contract into their digital display locations – customised to only show their personal uploads.

Think we might be able to help out with your app?

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