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Sure, but not everyone has the privilege of living in a first world country. See for example the Republic of Georgia utilising blockchain tech to secure real es

• notyourday 9y ago
  It uses a distributed public ledger, not bitcoin.
  • ujal 9y ago
    It does use bitcoin to verify the transactions. Point is, bitcoin - currently being the biggest blockchain deployed - is more trustworthy than most governments and therefore most currencies. I am not an economist though and regulations seem to be necessary in the real world. Any ideas as to what technology, giving widespread adoption, would make them obsolete?
    • notyourday 9y ago
      If the claim is that the private data unrelated to bitcoin transactions is being published and verified on a bitcoin blockchain then this is a scam. It is absolutely amazing that the person who wrote this article still has a title of a Senior Editor that claims to write on this topic.
      • ujal 9y ago
        It is possible to hash the data and make that hash part of the transaction [0]. [0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.04015 https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.04015
        • notyourday 9y ago
          That's not the application, however.