On Fri, 27 Oct 2017, at 08:13 PM, Pall Thayer via NetBehaviour wrote: > This is a great read. Now I want someone to explain to me how a non- > material (non-existent) work of art maintains its immateriality (its > non-existence) despite a record in the blockchain. Immateriality and inexistence are different matters. :-)
Registering something in the blockchain doesn't anchor its being or cause it to come into existence unless we agree it does or we have some way of evaluating that existence - http://robmyers.org/proof-of-existence/ For entities we are claiming exist outside of the blockchain, the data that claims to register that existence is a proxy for them. We cannot validate the correctness of that claim using the blockchain's consensus rules in the same way we can for a simple value transaction if we wish to validate the fact of the registered object's existence outside of the blockchain. Something about being outside the text. We can only validate that person X placed a record on the blockchain, and possibly that later they sent it to person Y. We use such proxies when buying and selling physical property such as cars or houses, or more pertinently when buying and selling conceptual art. Certificates of authenticity for conceptual art are even more material than blockchain records. But I feel they are still proxies for the work rather than being the work, although this may just be the conceptual art fan in me speaking. - Rob.
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