[LINK] ASX CHESS and Blockchain

Hamish Moffatt hamish at cloud.net.au
Thu Dec 7 13:19:14 AEDT 2017


On 07/12/17 12:35, Roger Clarke wrote:
> [But shares are a form of commodity, i.e. they are undifferentiated, and no-one cares whose they used to be, only that they're mine now.  Put another way, whereas provenance matters with some categories of goods (objets d'art being a good example), it matters not at all with shares, because the registry authenticates the holding beng sold, and warrants that the shares are valid.

Nobody cares who had the $5 note in my wallet before me either, but 
that's what the Bitcoin blockchain tracks. Currently it's 144Gb 
according to https://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size. Fascinating 
reading no doubt.


Hamish



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