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Preserving Provenance: How The Motor Chain is Revolutionizing Classic Car History · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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BreakFix podcast is all about capturing the living history of people from
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all over the autosphere, from wrench turners and racers to artists, authors,
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designers, and everything in between.
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Our goal is to inspire a new generation of petrolheads that wonder.
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How did they get that job or become that person?
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The road to success is paved by all of us because everyone has a story.
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What if there was a better way to manage, preserve, share, and
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transfer the history of your classic vehicle through its lifetime?
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Steeped in the latest technology, the Motor Chain, founded by computer
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scientist and car enthusiast Julio Saiz, aims to satisfy that very need.
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And he's here to explain how it all works and why securing and verifying
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the provenance of your collector vehicle is critical to its history.
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Julio, welcome to BreakFix.
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Hello, Eric.
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Thank you very much for having me in the Break and Fix podcast.
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Well, like all good BreakFix stories, there's a superhero origin.
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So let's talk about the who, what, when, and where of you
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and how all this came to be.
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What's your petrolhead origin story?
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I've been always fascinated about things that move fast.
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Originally, I wanted to be a fighter pilot back in Spain, and I'm from Madrid.
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I didn't make it.
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You have to study very hard.
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When you were 18 years old and, uh, finally didn't make it to the air
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force in Spain, then I decided to do computer science engineering.
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I was right before the internet bubble.
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So it was very, uh, you know, fashion to join that profession, which I did.
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And I've been in that industry for 20 years.
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Time to game.
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Okay.
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Salary.
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So I start to buy cars.
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I still own my very first car, which I bought in 2001.
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It's an Alfa Romeo hatchback, 147.
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I don't think that car was ever sold in the US, but I love it.
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My winter car, I just took it out on the summer sleep.
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Because in 2010 or 11, I bought...
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Honda is 2000, which is the car I was craving since I was, I don't
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know, I mean, maybe 20 years age.
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And I'm the second owner of that car.
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Very proud of that.
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And it has now 70, 000 kilometers of joy.
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It's a hundred percent OEM.
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I don't plan to modify the car at all.
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And then in 2017, I wanted to buy a proper classic car.
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And that was the starting of the motor chain, because I got
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my hands into 1977 Ferrari 308 GTB, with a new metallic saddle.
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And that was the origin of the motor chain idea.
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That was the ignition of that.
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In the video on your website, where you talk about the founding
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of the motor chain, the 308 is behind you and you're driving it
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around and you're talking about it.
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And you say very a matter of factly that when you were shopping for
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your first classic car, you really didn't have something in mind.
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And I kind of chuckled because we're all petrol heads of a certain
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age and the 308 is a bit the icon.
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So I wanted to ask, was Magnum PI as big of a deal in Europe as it
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was in the United States in the 80s?
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Yes, Magnum PI is very well known.
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It was never my favorite, to be honest.
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It's not a TV show I like it a lot.
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I'm more full moon with Bruce Willis, you know, and this kind of TV show.
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That was my show in the 80s.
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So Miami Vice, for example, more than Magnum PI.
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The 308 came by luck, I will say.
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I had a budget and I was considering 993 or 960.
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for Porsche.
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I wanted a very analogic car.
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I want to emulate Fangio feeling.
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And the reason I bought this car finally was because it's early still.
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So it's carburetor.
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There's not injection.
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And I was not sure because the car is not red, but it is blue, blue, blue metal.
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It's subtle.
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That's the reason that nobody wanted, but I think I made the
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right choice in buying these.
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So do you like driving it?
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What's the experience like?
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It is like working out.
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It's like going to the gym.
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I think I lost a kilo every time I drive it in summer, it sucks 20 liters
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of fuel per a hundred kilometers.
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And I think like really 10 go to the engine, five go to the air and then
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five go to me because you really smell fuel when you arrive home, I love it.
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And honestly, it's full experience, whole sensorial experience.
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I really, really, really enjoy the car big time.
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So as you mentioned, the 308 is the jumping off point for the motor chain.
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So let's talk a little bit more about what the motor chain is.
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The backstory here is that when you bought the 308, as you said, it leaks fuel,
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but it has that analog experience and there's probably a little oil in there.
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And you're not really sure.
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What the history of the car is.
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And that's the most important part.
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When you take ownership as a custodian of a classic car, you want as much
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information as possible because you don't want to throw good money after bad.
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And you don't want to start replacing parts that have
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already been recently replaced.
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And without those records, it's really hard to tell.
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So what was it about the 308 that made you go, Hmm.
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I wish I knew more about this car.
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In particular, I was lucky because the previous owner was a very good
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collector and he kept very good records of the work that he did.
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So the negotiation of the price was very transparent.
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Thanks to the fact that we knew what had to be done to the car, what
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there was done to the car before.
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But it is true that going back a little bit to the car
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had a gap between 77 and 85.
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Okay.
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The first carbon copy invoice I have from the car is from 1985,
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which by the way, I found the owner back in the U S of that car.
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He's helping me to build the story back of that car.
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But the most important is when I bought the car, I took all the
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paperwork with me, and then I felt the responsibility of keeping track of it.
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We, as an owners of cars, we do have a responsibility of documenting the car.
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And this is something that not everyone feels.
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That's why also one part of the Motochain is educating the community about the
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importance of documenting the car.
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This is fundamental.
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And what's funny about that is it parallels computer science as we have
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evolved in writing programming languages.
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What do we always tell developers?
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Document, document, document.
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Best practice.
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Exactly.
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As code changes hands, somebody else needs to pick up where you left off.
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And cars are very similar in that way.
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It's ironic that you're bringing these two worlds together.
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So let's talk a little bit more about how the motor chain
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works and how you developed it.
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At the beginning, it was a little bit like a paperless project.
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Like, Oh, I don't, I don't like paper.
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Paper get lost, so let's do something that you can accumulate
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all the paper in electronic format.
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But then I went a little bit further.
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I was familiar with blockchain technology, and then I'm also familiar
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with putting together business models using technology, and I further
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developed that and I put together the business model for the MotoChain.
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So with the MotoChain, what you do is you put the car in the middle of an ecosystem.
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Which is the classic car ecosystem.
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You put an asset in the middle of the ecosystem.
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Obviously that the first person who has to jump into the motor chain is the owner.
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The owner will have to register the car in the motor chain.
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You create a digital twin of the car with the registration
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process, chassis number, et cetera.
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And then the owner has the possibility of taking all the paperwork.
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From the past and put it on the motor chain in a timeline format.
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The most important thing of the motor chain is that you, as an owner, you
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can open the car to third parties.
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So you take the car to your shop, to your mechanic, and then
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the mechanic can participate.
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into your car's history.
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So they can input all the maintenance, all the work, all the restoration.
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They can document the work with photos.
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They can upload the invoices with photos, with PDF.
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And this input of any third party will be electronically
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signed off in the motochain.
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And because we use blockchain technology and a little bit of
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governance, which is the validation.
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Of the identity of every user in the motor chain, the input in the car history
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done by third parties is irrefutable and nobody can dispute in the future
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that this person did the job in the car.
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So you kind of fake it.
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That's the fundamental, let's say, functionality of the motor chain.
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I really like some of these features.
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One of them that sticks out to me and Julio, if you don't mind me adding a
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request for engineering here in RFE.
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Go ahead.
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The notebook part is fascinating.
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But I'd love to take it to the next level because there is the preservation
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part of classic car collecting, but there's also that resto mod part where
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you have a car that, you know, you're trying to do something different
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with, or you're building a show car.
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There's a lot of custom builds in the United States.
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It would be fun to expand upon that notebook and not just be.
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A to do list, but a mod list and to be able to write notes.
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And this is how we board over the engine.
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And this is how we rewired the fuel pump.
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And you know, this is where the trick switches to start the car, because
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some of these custom builds, when they change hands, you start scratching your
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head going, well, what did they do?
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Why is it like this?
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Why did they wire it like that?
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It'd be nice to have those builders notes in there where
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you can go back and go, Oh, okay.
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That makes more sense.
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And now I can trace back the history of that custom part of the build itself.
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Well, I have good news Eric, you can do that already.
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Oh, that's awesome.
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Yeah.
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Because you put an event in the timeline, we have a huge inventory
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of things that you can put there.
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And when you are building a restomode, you should document that.
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Like you start in January, 2024.
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Okay.
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We'll start with the engine and you can start documenting
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what you do with the engine.
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You take the engine out, you put the engine apart, and then I'm going to put
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it with these pistons, new bore, whatever.
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You should document all of that in the timeline of the car.
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Absolutely.
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It's available.
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You can do it and you should do it.
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Exactly the way you describe it should be part of the car history.
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No question.
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Can you also add where you purchased the parts from in case
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you need to order another one?
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You have to.
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I mean, so how to document something.
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So my recommendation is that at the moment that the car has a failure, for example,
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it broke, something broke, you start documenting straightforward that day.
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The mileage the car had, you make a photo of the odometer.
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You make a photo of whatever the mess is, all the oil leaking,
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whatever, you make a photo.
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And then you buy the spare part.
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You have the invoice of the spare part.
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It has to be part of the documentation.
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Then you take it to the shop and the shop will put the things
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apart and discover new things.
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You make a photo of whatever you discover.
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And then you make a photo of the after, when everything is clean and nice.
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You make a photo of that.
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And finally, the invoice.
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the date of the work and the mileage and that's it.
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So don't wait to document after the job is done because you
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will forget a lot of details.
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Start documenting when the thing happen.
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The Motochain you can work in draft mode so you can immediately lock something in
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the timeline and you can build up, you know, that event and then when everything
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is closed, it's done, it's fixed.
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The rest of the mode is Phoenix, then you just close everything, you remove
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the draft mode, and then you stamp it in the timeline, and that's forever.
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So the timeline part of this makes sense, right?
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You're building a chronology of the vehicle.
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But for our listeners that may not be familiar with blockchain technology,
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can you boil it down and explain how that works, and how it relates to
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the timeline that you're building?
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I think we're all familiar with the concept of database.
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So database, you accumulate information and you have it information somewhere.
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And then the information belongs to whoever owns the database.
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That's not the case of the Motochain.
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It's a distributed database.
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The timeline is just the format that we propose to represent
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the history of the car.
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I think it's very user friendly to have the timeline of your car
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history in a way to represent what happened to the car in the past.
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The features of the blockchain, so why we use it, as I mentioned.
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We make the history irrefutable, the inputs of third parties, but also
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you can modify any input in the car.
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When you transfer the car to the next owner, the next owner cannot
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modify anything in the timeline.
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And that mitigates the risk of someone telling lies about the car.
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So you can modify the past of the car.
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And the last thing we use blockchain is because the transfer of the asset.
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So we control the property of the car.
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So when you sell the car, you can transfer.
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The car and all the documentation to the next owner.
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And this is controlled by blockchain technology, which is
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fundamentally the property transfer.
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The timeline and blockchain technology that you're using, as you said, the
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history of the car becomes locked, but you also proposed a use case,
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which is contradictory to that in the sense that you have a hole in your
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history for the 308 between 77 and 85.
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So if you can't change the history, how are you able to modify missing
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records or add pieces where there are gaps in the timeline?
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No, you can.
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I mean, if I find something between 77 and 85, I can create an event and
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I'll say, Oh, I found a new owner and I have the evidence, very important.
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I have a document telling me that some person owned this car or some
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shop maintained this car in seventies.
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And I can do that.
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What you cannot do is modify an input in the timeline that.
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But you can put pieces in between if there's say you found another
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receipt or something like that.
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So this is great.
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That adds a layer, not only of security of chronology, but also accountability, which
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is really important with a collector car.
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Who has been touching it?
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Who's been responsible with it?
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Maybe there's some parts that are missing.
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You can go back to that mechanic or that person and say,
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Hey, is there a box of 308s?
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Stuff laying around that we forgot when the other gentleman or lady sold the car.
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Which also brings up an interesting point.
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You talk about the transfer of ownership.
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Is it possible to sell a vehicle through the motor chain?
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I didn't want the motor chain to be a marketplace.
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Cause there are many, there are very good, there are good, there are bad.
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There are online auctions.
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There are traditional marketplace, but if you are selling your car
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and you want to have transparent and honest conversation with.
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the final buyer or the two or three final buyers, you would like the buyer
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or as a buyer, I would like to understand better what the history of the car is.
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And this is when the motor chain enters into the discussion.
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As an owner, you can open the car to the buyer and the buyer in remote,
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obviously, will have time to take a look to the car history from the sofa
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in his living room with a glass of wine understanding what happened to the car.
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You cannot sell a car but it will participate into the buy and sell process.
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And then when you sell the car, you can transfer that to the next one.
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And then there's the concept of classic car auctions, ranging from
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your local auction to the Meecums and the Barrett Jacksons, all the
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way up through the Pebble Beach Concours and everything in between.
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So in that instance, using your technology, have you created an
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API where you can open that up to, let's say, a Mecham to go in and
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pull the provenance of the vehicle?
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How does that work in an auction situation where there might be a couple hundred
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people trying to look at the back history of the vehicle before they purchase it?
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Is there an option for that in the motor chain?
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There is an option for that as soon as, uh, all an auction company house
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like to take the next step in their value proposition for the clients.
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We can easily build an API and connect with these platforms.
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Not a problem.
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Are you working to partner with any auction houses now?
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We are having discussion with several parties.
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Which I cannot disclose as you can imagine.
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Okay.
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I will be more than happy to do so soon.
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They are all in houses.
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There are different kinds of parties.
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We like to make them as a step in maturity and value proposition for the clients.
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Yes.
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So over the years, there's been other tools, proposed ideas.
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Even rough application development that's been put together in the similar
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vein of the motor chain, but they never reached maturity like you did.
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But I've heard from some people that there's a reluctance to
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put data in a system like this.
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Because oftentimes the chassis number or the VIN, the vehicle identification
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number partnered with this record information or these receipts, which
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could have partial credit card numbers, addresses, names, things like that.
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Now we reach a realm of what we call PII or personally identifiable information.
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How is the motor chain handling PII sensitive data?
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And now with new regulatory compliances in play like GDPR and others, how do
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you deal with the destruction of data and the dissemination of information?
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First of all, the motor chain is 100 percent private.
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There is no website.
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Where you can browse for cars, the car and the information of the car
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belongs to the owner is only up to the owner to open the car to someone else.
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The sharing process starts with the owner and is in one direction
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only, and it's always one one.
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So you always know who you are sharing the information with.
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So there is no broadcasting of information.
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ever.
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Then as a data processor, which is our role here, we used best
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practices in development and best practices in hosting to avoid or
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to mitigate as much as possible the always inherent risk of managing
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electronic information in the internet.
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But we do not share the information with third parties.
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We do not have publicity in our platform.
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And of course we do not trade.
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With the collector's information or the cost information,
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that's not our business model.
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We are not a social media and we are not a marketplace.
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And therefore is the reason that the platform is a paid platform.
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It's not for free.
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When we dig a little deeper and we talk about the receipt process and
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having those added to the timeline.
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Not to expose exactly how it works under the hood, but let
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me throw a scenario out here.
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I take a receipt, maybe I use my mobile device or I'm on my desktop and I want
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to basically scan it into the system.
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Is that being stored as an image?
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A PDF?
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Is it being converted by OCR?
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OCR being Optical Character Recognition.
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And the reason I ask that is Is there an opportunity for an owner or a user
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to obfuscate personally identifiable information, like their name or their
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address or other billing information when the receipts are stored in the system?
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What the system will do is it will store an image in case you are making a photo
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with your mobile phone, or in case you are using your, uh, drive to upload
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information or a PDF, if you choose to upload a PDF, which it happens in
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the case of invoices from the garage, there's no OCR, we don't use OCR.
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If the owner feels like they want to obfuscate the
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information, they can do that.
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Obviously with GDPR, if I decide I sell the car and I don't transfer the records
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to somebody else, or I want to purge the records from the system, they are
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completely deleted by rule and regulation.
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Of course, if we receive the request to either list the information
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that we have of a certain user or delete, we will delete, of course.
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In the process of developing this whole portfolio, there's
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a validation aspect of it too.
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So now there's another layer of personally identifiable information.
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You're adding in an identification like a driver's license.
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Why?
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We need that to secure the irrefutability of the information.
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I think we mentioned before the accountability.
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When you ask someone to participate in your car's documentation, you as
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an owner, as a car collector, you will show two persons with reputation.
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You will like your restorer or your very respected and reputed
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shop to document their work.
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And of course we want that person when documenting the car is
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putting his reputation at stake.
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And you as a collector, you want that because it's not only the collector saying
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my car is A, B, C, it's good, it's bad.
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It's another party saying that this car is good or bad, or I have done this job.
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The trust on your car documentation increases with more people
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participating in your car history.
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The more people you have.
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Participating in your car history, the higher the trust and the higher
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the value of your car will be.
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Obviously, if we had allowed anyone to do so with any identity
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validation, it would have zero value when we're doing the MotoChamp.
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So I want the MotoChamp to be a very serious platform.
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So therefore I ask the participants to validate their
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identity for accountability.
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Does that also extend to the shops that are doing the work?
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Yes.
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Absolutely.
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There are some shops that maybe they were around for four decades
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and they're not here anymore.
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So now you almost have to build a history and a credibility on what they were
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doing with respect to maybe the Ferrari community or the Porsche community
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and all the cars that they worked on.
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If the garages appear, you have an invoice.
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From 50 years ago, we cannot ask this garage to validate their identity.
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I mean, in this case, the owner will upload the invoice and that's it.
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But from this point on, there is no excuse to have the validation and
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the electronic certification of the new participants in your car history.
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You mentioned earlier.
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A paid service.
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So let's talk about the pricing model.
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Is it a subscription?
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Is it a one time fee?
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The different versions of the motor chain?
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If it's a tiered system, is it a per seat?
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And I mean that by per driver's seat.
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Are you paying per car?
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Is it per owner?
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How does the pricing model work for the motor chain?
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So it's very simple.
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It's a subscription and you will pay 50 Per car per year, and that will give
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you access to all the features of the motor chain with a limited documentation
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for the car and or the shops is free so they can add whatever they want for
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free is just the owner needs to have the car subscribed in the platform.
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There is another service that we offer currently only in in Switzerland, which is
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professional documentation service because we discovered that there are owners.
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And we have clients with a lot of cars and they do not have time to
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take all the existing paperwork and put it on the motor chain.
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And we say, no worries, we do it for you.
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And we do where the cars are.
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And then we register the car, just his number, et cetera.
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And we take all the paperwork.
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We scan it professionally.
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And we indexed all that information into the motor chain.
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And from that point on is the responsibility of the owner or the
22:13
owner's shops restore us to keep documenting the car Are you storing
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those physical files for them as well or they get returned to the owner?
22:21
We do not neither.
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I allow the owners to post me the documentation.
22:26
We go where the documentation is Cause you know, the paperwork is very
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valuable, so I don't want the paper to be flying around in any case.
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Is it all mobile based or is there a web equivalent?
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Both.
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The very first version was iOS, which is available in the Apple store.
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And instead of doing Android version, we decided to do web sensitive version,
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which you can use it from your laptop.
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So it's a web version, any device, mobile device with web brochure,
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we'll be able to use it with the same functionalities that we have in the iOS.
22:58
You talked about transfer of ownership, especially within the app owner to owner.
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How does that work?
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I've been paying for my subscription for whatever car I have, and
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I sell it to somebody and I transfer all my records over.
23:10
Suddenly they get a bill for 50 bucks for that new car, or is, does the
23:14
subscription have to run out and then it's co termed into the renewal process?
23:18
So when you transfer the car, your renewal as an owner will
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be automatically canceled.
23:23
So you will not get further invoices for that car.
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And the next owner, at the moment that he will receive the car and
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the car documentation with no cost.
23:33
But at the moment that he or she wants to continue the documentation, then the
23:37
subscription will pop up for him or her.
23:40
Is there a period of time That a car and its documentation can stay in limbo.
23:45
Say I sell you my car.
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I say, okay, this car is sold.
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It no longer belongs to me.
23:50
It's going to go to Julio and you don't accept it for a while.
23:53
Maybe you're busy.
23:54
You forgot about it.
23:55
Is there a point where those records are deleted or they just permanently
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stay in limbo until you accept final ownership of the documents?
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So we'll keep sending reminders.
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to the seller and we will communicate to the buyer that the request is done
24:09
is between them to accept and or get the request but if the buyer has executed the
24:14
request and the seller is not sending the card we will send in automatic reminders
24:19
in the case this is not happening the buyer will contact us and we will contact
24:23
the seller about what the problem is could be a technical issue normally or this
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is something that you don't do every day So maybe they don't know how to do it.
24:32
They get lost with the process, which is very simple.
24:34
I mean, that should not be the case.
24:35
And then normally the seller then send the car with no problem.
24:39
It actually, it takes three clicks to transfer a car.
24:42
It's no more than that.
24:44
It happened and maybe someone does not want to receive the car in the
24:47
moto chain because doesn't like it.
24:50
And then the seller will communicate that to us and we will store the car.
24:54
We have a special account, which is the storage.
24:57
That's especially important, too, when you're thinking about
24:59
maybe a state planning, where you have a large collection and the
25:02
owner or the curator passes away.
25:04
What do you do with those records?
25:06
There's a provenance there.
25:07
Nobody wants to start this process over again.
25:09
Purging the information is one thing, but it's that lost in limbo situation
25:14
where what do you do with that car?
25:15
And I'm glad to see that you guys have taken the time and foresight
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to say, we need to hold this.
25:20
We don't want to recreate the wheel every time a car transfers around.
25:24
Thank you.
25:24
Exactly.
25:25
Exactly.
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I mean, our mission is to preserve the car history and avoid gaps.
25:28
So obviously, I mean, we do not believe that information
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unless the owner asks for it.
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We spoke about that GDPR wise, the car will remain in the storage.
25:36
And hopefully crossing fingers that in the future, maybe another owner
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will call us and say, by the way, is there a chance that this car was in
25:44
the motor shape and we'll look for it.
25:46
Obviously the owner will have to show evidence of ownership.
25:50
There is a governance.
25:52
They're not only technology and if we agree that effectively he or she is
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the new owner, then we will move the car to him or her expanding on that.
26:01
There is a concept of community on the motor chain.
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How does that work?
26:04
Is it open?
26:05
Is it by invite?
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What kind of information is shared in the community portion of the TMC?
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It is not by invitation.
26:12
So everyone who owns a car and believes that the car deserve documentation,
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which in my opinion, Any car deserves documentation is open to register to the
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car and start documenting the car the community right now We have growing a
26:27
social media channel which communicate developments of the platform We are very
26:31
strong in linkedin as well So you can follow me in linkedin which are sharing
26:35
information of our progress and I have a regular newsletter Where we inform about
26:40
changes in the platform upcoming events, etc Like every good software package,
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you have a roadmap and a release cycle.
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So what's next for the motor chain plans to expand any new features,
26:53
some spoilers you can give us.
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Probably the first is sync a little bit, the iOS version with the web
26:58
version in the iOS version, we, uh, fulfill these with not only the
27:03
documentation of the car, but you have alarms, you have maintenance
27:06
alarms, you have also what we call.
27:09
Notebooks, which is a kind of electronic post its where you
27:12
can list the to dos with the car.
27:15
It's not really documentation, but you know, it's important to have the list
27:19
of what you have to do with the car.
27:21
So probably the next version will sync all these functionalities
27:24
with the web version.
27:25
The web version doesn't have this.
27:26
It has only the documentation part, the history.
27:30
A lot of users are asking me the possibility to print out In a
27:35
PDF, a summary of the car, they still like to have a paper that
27:40
could be probably next future.
27:41
Something which is already available is the history preserve sticker.
27:46
The owners, they do have the possibility of asking us for this sticker.
27:50
This is unique per car and it comes with different colors in
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blue, silver or gold according to how good your documentation is.
27:59
And then we will go through documentation and we will do a rating.
28:03
Well, you know, we have the best documented car in the world.
28:06
We will use the same methodology to rate the documentation of the car.
28:09
And we will listen to this very special high quality sticker that our owners,
28:14
they have it in the windshield of the car.
28:16
And you can show that not only the car is in good condition, but you
28:20
also look after the documentation and maybe you are a gold, a history
28:24
preserved gold ring by the motor ship.
28:27
So you're speaking my language, Julio.
28:28
This is awesome.
28:29
And you know what I can see?
28:30
At least one convinced.
28:31
I have one believer.
28:33
Well, I can see it applying to even your passenger vehicles too, right?
28:37
Because maybe they're not as prestigious as a classic car, but
28:40
they have their own provenance.
28:41
And when you go to go sell your Alpha 147 to somebody else and
28:45
they go, well, this is a great car.
28:47
It is what it is.
28:48
It's a hot hatch, but it's nice to have that records that go with it.
28:51
Right?
28:51
So this is really awesome to be able to do this for pretty much
28:54
any vehicle that exists out there.
28:55
If you love the car, it should be in the motor chain.
28:58
That's my motto.
28:59
With that, we've reached the part of the episode where I like to ask our
29:02
guests any shout outs, promotions, or anything else you'd like to share
29:05
that we haven't covered thus far.
29:07
Eric, thank you for having me.
29:08
And I will be more than happy to offer 25 percent discount to all your listeners.
29:13
We will be adding that promo code to our show notes.
29:15
So we'll have lots of follow on information and other details
29:18
about the motor shade that you can check out at gtmotorsports.
29:21
org.
29:22
The Motorchain connects collector car owners with professionals and buyers,
29:26
allowing all parties to participate in the vehicle's documentation and
29:30
history interactions and transfers, and are controlled and regulated with
29:34
blockchain technology, securing trust in the documentation, And the vehicle's
29:38
provenance with the motor chain, you'll never have to wonder about the
29:42
health and status of your vehicles.
29:44
To learn more, visit www.themotorchain.com or follow Julio and the team on
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social media, at the motor chain, on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
29:55
Or follow them on Instagram at the motor chain TMC underscore, and be sure
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30:04
With that Julio, I can't thank you enough for coming on break, fix and
30:06
sharing your story and introducing the collector car and even us motor sports
30:11
guys to a new piece of technology, a new piece of kit that we need in our
30:15
arsenal to be able to continue to love, cherish, and take care of our cars.
30:19
There's been rumblings about the need for a product like the
30:23
motor chain for a very long time.
30:25
And I'm happy to see that someone like yourself has
30:27
stepped up to make it a reality.
30:29
So thank you for what you're doing.
30:31
My pleasure, Eric.
30:32
Thank you for having me.
30:33
And this is my 5 cents for the car community.
30:36
And I hope you guys will use it and enjoy it as much as I did building it.
30:40
And like you say, the roadmap is not finished.
30:43
So please come to me with ideas and I promise I will put them
30:47
in the roadmap for you guys.
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