Another BlockChain, to track conflicted individuals.
On Sun, 5 Aug 2018 at 11:21, Dr Bob Jansen <[email protected]> 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 > > --------------- > Dr Bob Jansen > Turtle Lane Studios Pty Ltd > 122 Cameron St, Rockdale NSW 2216, Australia > <https://maps.google.com/?q=122+Cameron+St,+Rockdale+NSW+2216,+Australia&entry=gmail&source=g> > Ph (Korea): +82 10-4494-0328 > Ph (Australia) +61 414 297 448 > Resume: http://au.linkedin.com/in/bobjan > Skype: bobjtls > KakaoTalk: bobjtls > http://www.turtlelane.com.au > > In line with the Australian anti-spam legislation, if you wish to receive > no further email from me, please send me an email with the subject "No Spam" > > > On 5 Aug 2018, at 08:08, Roger Clarke <[email protected]> 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. > > > > -- > > Roger Clarke http://www.rogerclarke.com/ > > > > Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA > > Tel: +61 2 6288 6916 http://about.me/roger.clarke > > mailto:[email protected] http://www.xamax.com.au/ > > > > Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. > > Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University > > _______________________________________________ > > Link mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link > _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
