IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine - July 2016 - 103
RFID/NFC Implants
for Bitcoin
Transactions
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An interview with Amal Graafstra.
By Katina Michael
K
atina michael interviews amal graafstra
[1] about his forthcoming initiative MyUki.com (pronounced /yoo kee/) (Figure 1). UKI is an implantable
near-field communication (NFC) platform for identity, security, cryptography, and payment applications.
Graafstra is the entrepreneur who started Dangerous Things.
com in 2013 (Figure 2), and, in this interview, he speaks on the
changes he has witnessed since the Maker Revolution. Graafstra
believes it is time to move ahead with products and services that
can be consumed by the general population, not just members
of the tech community. He observes the shortcomings of our
online identities that are owned by companies and not individuals and is proposing a way to integrate biological identity using
an embedded implant that will give the user greater control
over all of his or her transactions. While UKI is mostly about
security, cryptography, and bitcoin transactions, Graafstra is
also looking at various ways his product might be used, everything from access control, transit ticketing, e-payments, and
privacy applications [2].
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCE.2016.2556900
Date of publication: 10 August 2016
2162-2248/16©2016IEEE
Katina Michael: It's been over ten years since you wrote
your first book, RFID Toys [3], and a lot has happened
since then. But in summary, what has changed for you during that time?
Amal Graafstra: Technologywise, not much. Personal
philosophy, personal security, transhumanism, life extension,
a lot has changed. In 2005, when I wrote the book, it was kind
of a technological curiosity. There was a lot of hubbub around
RFID implants, which ultimately died down [4]. There was
really an argument around consent [5], but it wasn't really a
practical argument. After the Maker Revolution was born, say
around 2008, people started making and creating things in
their garages again. Also out of that movement, the maker
concepts ventured into the biological space. People started
thinking why would they buy that real-time polymerase chain
reaction machine for US$20,000 when they could make one
for US$2,500?
The idea that hacker ethics and methodology could be
applied to biology and all those things, spurred on discussion
of transhumanism, of the singularity, and more. For me, the
conversation started around privacy and security, and the
context of that around transponders didn't make any sense.
July 2016
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