Could be a reputation system implemented, I'm guessing each scooter has a unique identifier, folks could report a scooter left imporperly. This would hurt the user whom left it there's score.
I guess you could say that the fact it's using a block chain, any form of processing the transfer of ip/rights of the hash desired, can be out sourced. Bitpay, meta mask,. Etc
Side note I see no reason to use pow for this application, pos seams like a more appropriate security tradeoff
"We made a decision to revisit our typical list of schools and only visit the universities that had more than 18% of female undergraduate computer science majors"
So instead of having a very wide search Feild for applicable people, they reduced it for the sake of being sexist. Great
Yes, but the idea is now we can remove the custodians out of the mix. Why pay airbnb? The networking, booking, hopefully identity verification can all be done p2p