Guess what, this idea that the biggest problem with false information is people sneaking onto a server and altering an existing database without telling anyone was always incredibly stupid That is an extremely tunnel-vision-nerd view of what the problem is
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Christ the errors and misinformation and fraud you see isn't a result of people "hacking the database" It happens when people MAKE THE DATABASE It's a result of the way information GETS ADDED TO THE DATABASE IN THE FIRST PLACE
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NO ONE CARES ABOUT THE DATABASE "GETTING HACKED", THAT WAS ALWAYS THE EASIEST PROBLEM TO SOLVE THE IDEA THAT A CENTRALIZED SERVER "GETTING HACKED" IS THE BIGGEST PROBLEM PEOPLE HAVE TODAY IS STUPID PARANOID NERD BULLSHIT
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All this shit like Amazon saying they're going to put inventory "on the blockchain" and that will stop discrepancies Discrepancies almost never occur AFTER data entry, they occur when someone with a clipboard enters data about the physical cargo into the computer to start with
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the only problem a shared ledger / blockchain provides is a history of transactions between parties and nothing more. in practical terms, it's useless for 99.9% of things.
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Crypto nerds trying to use neat math for property rights and reimplementing a government by accident. One conference I was at they back engineered themselves into building permits on blockchain and didn't have an answer for blocking interests like HOAs, county gov, etc.
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The Blockchain proves provenance right up to the point in the chain of title where you really care what the provenance is.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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What stolen artwork
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The current scandal is some setup where you can NFT a tweet (any tweet) on demand. That includes tweets where people post their art.
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