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If a person distrusts always anything, from anyone, from anywhere then it is true that blockchain doesn't provide any solution. However blockchain can make it m

If a person distrusts always anything, from anyone, from anywhere then it is true that blockchain doesn't provide any solution. However blockchain can make it more difficult, for a corrupt official to change some official documents, or in some cases to make them disappear completely. The timestamp of the arrest is of the utterly most importance. When a cop that may be corrupt or not, we don't know, upload the arrest after 10 hours, then something fishy might going on, the video might be edited. People around usually witness the arrest, and they know around what time it took place. If the data is uploaded 10 minutes after the arrest, then we are more sure of the legitimace, than after 10 hours. That's all.

polytely 6y ago
But how do you know that the thing that is uploaded is legitimate? You can move information into the blockchain but the actual use of that information still happens in the real world so I don't see blockchain changing things that much.
- phoinix 6y ago
  Well, when there are some official documents that spawn huge controversy, in a big company or a nation or whatever, and no one ever does destroy some evidence, or distort them in some way beneficial to him, then indeed blockchain isn't much of a use.
jcranmer 6y ago
From what I've seen of police misconduct, the general form of misconduct is that the police officers generally just blatantly lie. The problem isn't that they're editing records of things that happened, the problem is that they're lying about the records in the first place--and I think the George Floyd protests make perfectly clear that they are more than willing to lie even when they know that hard evidence (in the form of other people recording the scene) contradicting them will exist. That's the basic problem with blockchain: it only really provides nonrepudiation (someone can't back away from a statement they made previously). It doesn't have a solution for people willing to commit perjury, and when you look at all of the social situations where official records are distrusted, the main reason for that is that officials are known to be committing perjury and face no repercussions for it.
- phoinix 6y ago
  Yeah, i confess there is a tiny little probability that blockchain doesn't solve all of the worlds problems. But when we can have documents that absolutely no human can alter, then that human doesn't have absolute power, so it means, this less than absolute power, corrupts less than absolutely. A step to the right direction maybe?

polytely 6y ago

But how do you know that the thing that is uploaded is legitimate? You can move information into the blockchain but the actual use of that information still happens in the real world so I don't see blockchain changing things that much.

phoinix 6y ago
Well, when there are some official documents that spawn huge controversy, in a big company or a nation or whatever, and no one ever does destroy some evidence, or distort them in some way beneficial to him, then indeed blockchain isn't much of a use.

jcranmer 6y ago

From what I've seen of police misconduct, the general form of misconduct is that the police officers generally just blatantly lie. The problem isn't that they're editing records of things that happened, the problem is that they're lying about the records in the first place--and I think the George Floyd protests make perfectly clear that they are more than willing to lie even when they know that hard evidence (in the form of other people recording the scene) contradicting them will exist. That's the basic problem with blockchain: it only really provides nonrepudiation (someone can't back away from a statement they made previously). It doesn't have a solution for people willing to commit perjury, and when you look at all of the social situations where official records are distrusted, the main reason for that is that officials are known to be committing perjury and face no repercussions for it.

phoinix 6y ago
Yeah, i confess there is a tiny little probability that blockchain doesn't solve all of the worlds problems. But when we can have documents that absolutely no human can alter, then that human doesn't have absolute power, so it means, this less than absolute power, corrupts less than absolutely. A step to the right direction maybe?