A lot of people are excited about the blockchain today, especially after realizing that there is a lot more to the blockchain than the currency approach that many people associate with it. For the most part, when you mention the blockchain, many people think about Bitcoin in its capacity as an alternative currency to fiat currency. However, there is so much more to the blockchain than the monetary value.
Travel enthusiasts, in particular, will appreciate Kokorobakari. What is Kokorobakari about? It is a decentralized app on the blockchain that allows you to relive your travel experiences in different destinations all over the world on the blockchain. You do this in the form of graffiti. Each time you travel to a destination, you can see graffiti that other travelers like yourself left behind, and you can also go further and translate their graffiti, as they would yours.
Kokorobakari is the brainchild of Profound Design Technology Co., Ltd, a company with business interests in designing semiconductors and developing blockchain apps. This app creates virtual graffiti that you can use to save memories from different travel destinations you visit all over the world. For all the amazing memories of the trips, you can also make donations as a form of gratitude.
Using Kokorobakari
One of the best things about using this app is that it is available on handheld devices. You can download and install the smartphone app, which means that you will come across a lot of other people who have used the app before. Other than memories from your travel destinations, Kokorobakari also stores information about the specific locations on the blockchain. Using Kokorobakari, you can decide to make a donation to specific individuals from a list of recipients using the virtual currency.
When using Kokorobakari, you can see different graffiti that have been saved by other users on the map. Since the memories are saved on the blockchain, they are stored semi-permanently, so there is no need for you to keep making backup copies of the graffiti. Considering that everyone has unique needs about their privacy, you can choose to disclose your graffiti to other users or keep them private.
If other users make their graffiti public, you can view them each time you check out a location you would love to visit, that they have visited before. All graffitis are displayed on a map, so from the comfort of your phone, you can see all the destinations on the world map where graffitis have been used before.
Of course, as you can imagine, with people using this app all over the world, everyone creates their virtual graffiti in a language that they understand best. To make work easier for all users, Kokorobakari can translate local graffiti content into your predetermined language.
Troubleshooting your Kokorobakari
While Kokorobakari is an interesting app for travel enthusiasts, there are a few issues that users have reported in the past that might be a challenge for you. Below, we will address some of them so that you have an easier experience using the app.
- Inability to See the Grafitti
When you translate the graffiti, in some cases you might not be able to see it. This usually happens when there are many translation requests being processed. As a result, you might not be able to see your translated graffiti for some time.
To avoid this problem when checking out graffiti, you can choose Don’t Translate so that you can access the graffiti in the original language that the owner created it. Take note that this problem should not persist for a long time. In many cases, you should be able to translate and see the graffiti in a day.
- Invisible Graffiti
There are instances where you might not be able to see the graffiti you create. This problem happens not just with Kokorobakari but the entire blockchain. Remember that at any point in time, there are many people using the blockchain and processing bits of information. Because of this reason, it might be a while before you can write on the blockchain again, so if you create graffiti but you cannot see it, you can check again after some time.
- How to Register for the Donation List
Earlier on we mentioned that you can donate to specific recipients in a predefined list. To have your details uploaded to this list, you have to register with Profound Design Technology Co., Ltd.
Graffiti is an incredible way to express yourself, and also an amazing form of art. It is also possible that some people might take advantage of this and abuse the privileges. When this happens, inappropriate graffiti are pushed to a blacklist, such that they will no longer be visible to other users.
Getting Started with Kokorobakari
While Kokorobakari is available as a decentralized app that you can install on your smartphone, you can also run it on your desktop PC. However, it is always advisable to run it on your smartphone because you need access to location information to process and write graffiti. In case you are running the test version of Kokorobakari, you must be aware that it runs on a test network. For this reason, therefore, the ethereum used in the test version is not monetary ethereum.
Before you get started, you must install the Metamask app. This app is available as a browser extension for PC users and also an app version for smartphone users. The PC version works best with Google Chrome and Firefox. However, we can expect version updates in the future to support many other browsers too.
When you run the app on your smartphone, allow permission to access your location because this will enable the app to provide graffiti information specific to the location you want to access. Besides, remember that graffiti on the app is written depending on the location associated with the information. For this reason, once you create graffiti, you cannot change or modify the location. The kind of data that is obtained and stored in the blockchain includes the graffiti in character strings, information about the location to help in displaying graffiti, the date and time the graffiti was created and the ethereum account address.
