On 12/10/18 12:11, Roger Clarke wrote:
Don't bother with blockchain: databases or even email could be better ...
Land title is one possible application for blockchain. See:
"NSW Land Registry to trial blockchain for conveyancing: The state wants
to transition completely to eConveyancing by July 1, 2019:", Asha
McLean, zdnet, October 15, 2018:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/nsw-land-registry-to-trial-blockchain-for-conveyancing/
I am on the ACS Blockchain Technical Committee and have attended a few
meetings with Data 61 who are preparing a report on it for ACS. But I do
struggle to find many use cases for blockchain. How often do you have
something which needs to be distributed, immutable and not run by a
central trusted party?
One application I suggested to the blockchain committee is for
micro-credentials. Each student may have several hundred
micro-credentials from dozens of institutions, making paper based
certificates unworkable. I discussed this in Colombo a few weeks ago at
the Sri Lanka national IT conference:
http://tomw.net.au/technology/it/digital_economy_learning/
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