[LINK] LAT: Blockchain ... suffers a slowdown

[Roger Clarke]

I was a bit slow in getting around to commenting on the blockchain notion:

    Deconstructing Blockchain  (Feb 2016)
    http://www.rogerclarke.com/EC/BCD.html

It seems that the vacuousness is finally becoming more widely apparent:
>Blockchain, once seen as a corporate cure-all, suffers a slowdown
>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-blockchain-corporations-20180801-story.html

Funnily enough, over a beer the other night, a chap I was talking to came up with a problem that actually has a structure for which a public blockchain is a fit.  (Third beer, can't currently remember the details).

The conversation took place in Adelaide.  So the example I'd given him was old-system land-title, which is - but fortunately is no more - a long series of items of evidence, linked chronologically.  It was replaced by Torrens title - invented in South Australia - which is registry-based, such that there is no chain.  

Blockchain-shaped problems exist.  There just aren't all that many of them.

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