Blockchain and crypto find use case in community powered weather forecasting
WeatherXM has deployed over 700 decentralized weather stations around the world to harvest local data, which provides station owners with utility tokens in return. Blockchain and crypto are coming to a local weather station near you - or at least that’s what one group of Athens-based engineers is trying to accomplish. WeatherXM is using a combination of blockchain-based data verification with crypto incentives to get people worldwide to capture their local weather data for more accurate forecasting. Cointelegraph sat down with WeatherXM co-founders, CEO Manolis Nikiforakis and chief technology officer Nikos Tsiligaridis for an interview in Athens, Greece. They talked about how Web3 tools provide the best solution to the lack of quality and the quantity of available weather data . WeatherXM co-founders from left to right: CEO Manolis Nikiforakis , CTO Nikos Tsiligaridis, head of engineering Stratos Theodorou The company is deploying a new infrastructure of community-powered weather ...