@molly0xfff
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Hey Molly,
What are your thoughts about use of blockchain as a database for document authentication among large public organizations like governmental organs? It would be a way for governments to authenticate a document in such a way that can never be denied again. Would it be any better than just a normal intensional database?
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@Madagascar_Sky what's the problem you're trying to solve?
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Authentication of documents that cannot be retracted. For govt institutions to issue a document that then lives on forever. Govts might hate it because they cannot retract the fact of its existence, thus making it very valuable for everyone else when it comes to authenticity.
Like NFTs, but for official documents.
I realise it's like govt databases that researchers can download and reference later, but more formalised and redundant.
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@Madagascar_Sky where is this problem happening?
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Currently? Nowhere, but I had been thinking about evidence authentication for things like surveillance videos against accusations of manipulation, maybe with AI. Every hardware provider company would do it themselves, or offer to integrate it with an existing service. Why would they use blockchain instead of a database? Because it would be authenticable by multiple different orgs and agencies.
Or you could have the evidence or document signed with a key. But they could argue that
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It was signed after the fact.
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@Madagascar_Sky why are you trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist?
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It's just one of those problems that has decided to live in my head. I do not trust authorities very much, I do not like them. Some way to hold them accountable is always attractive to me.
Another thing that precipitated this idea was that with the advent of AI, I wanted to find some way to keep tabs on reality on the internet.
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@Madagascar_Sky if you don't trust authorities very much, then i'm not sure why you would trust them to authenticate the data in the first place
