Lake Mary, Fla. — Sam Armes was hired in February to help bring the Seminole County Tax Collector's Office into the 21st-century.
Blockchain is secure because it keeps valuable sensitive data scattered across a network of computers, as opposed to a single server.
“So if I hack into that one server, I have access to every single customer,” Armes says. “If we do it on a Blockchain they could, say, hack into my application...they may get my data but they’re not going to get anyone else’s.”
Armes is working to develop a digital ID system you can present on your phone.
This app would allow you to show and hide certain components of your ID card. Armes uses the example of a bartender checking your age.
“He doesn’t need to know your height, address—even necessarily your name. By using our app, it’ll just tell him whether you’re either below or above 21.”
Armes met Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg when he created the Florida Blockchain Business Association to represent the Bitcoin industry in Tallahassee.
“Like myself, [Joel] has a passion for this stuff and he’s also an innovator...so it was kind of obvious for us to team up and create this position to drive this state forward,” Armes told me.
Last year, Bitcoin payment became an option at the Seminole County Tax Collector's Office.
Bitcoin is a complicated concept.
Armes suggests reading the 2008 Bitcoin white paper, which outlines the conceptual and technical details of the electronic peer-to-peer cash system.