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

[Johann Kruse]

Another BlockChain, to track conflicted individuals.


On Sun, 5 Aug 2018 at 11:21, Dr Bob Jansen <bob.jansen at turtlelane.com.au>
wrote:

> There was an thought provoking article in this weekends Financial Review
> about using block chain for managing sales of art. What they mentioned, and
> I hadn't thought of, was that when an artwork is destroyed, say by a fire,
> how does the block chain know? It requires someone to upload this
> information which merely moves the authority from a central organisation,
> like a bank, to an individual and thus does not remove the need for a
> trusted authority. If we can not trust someone like a bank, how can we
> trust a conflicted individual?
>
> BobJ
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> > On 5 Aug 2018, at 08:08, Roger Clarke <Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > 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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