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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