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If you want to attribute uniqueness to digital assets then cryptography definitely could help. But beyond that why do you need decentralisation? There's a nic
by lucozade 9y ago
If you want to attribute uniqueness to digital assets then cryptography definitely could help.
But beyond that why do you need decentralisation?
There's a nice to have that you can track ownership transfers more accurately but, as the previous poster said, that's probably not high on the TODO list.
And I think that's the current situation in a nutshell. Blockchain, as a monotonically ordered ledger, possibly trustless, is a useful idea. But it's not the wheel.
- ThomPete 9y agoBecause you want a secondhand (not secondary) market where things can move far far away from the originator plus you can prove it's history which in itself can have value (Bill Gates used to own it). It can live its own life so to speak. And thats just art, then there is digital art which is an even bigger problem. It's the unique history + decentralized that creates the value as it becomes more like a physical object. I don't think it's the situation in a nutshell. It takes time but the art world (especially involving China and Russia) is filled with fakes and fraud.