Sorry, but I think this is one of the worst use-cases of a distributed database. Many government databases are, by definition, centralized, no matter what techn

Sorry, but I think this is one of the worst use-cases of a distributed database. Many government databases are, by definition, centralized, no matter what technology it uses. The record the government holds is the official record. As a result, copies of the original document are pretty valuables unless they are certified by a court/agency as being official. Governments should definite move towards more modern databases and technology, but given that they "are" the central database, I don't see the benefit of decentralized one.