"Do you agree that in these cases, just having adequate laws would make a blockchain useless?" Yes. There are jurisdictions where there is no prospect of this,

"Do you agree that in these cases, just having adequate laws would make a blockchain useless?" Yes. There are jurisdictions where there is no prospect of this, but the answer to your question is yes. "Isn't that a company" Yes. "as soon as you have something resembling trademark law you can have such a label, even if it's designed by a private association of producers" Appellation d'origine contrôlée does not show chain of custody, so it's easily copied. But it may be possible to project a registry into low-rule-of-law regions without rule of law. "Just think about the few comments you wrote in this thread, and what you wish would exist in terms of registries, "synthetic state", and so on. How does removing "blockchain" from this equation What I am proposing is significantly different. make any of what you wrote impossible or even slightly harder?" Will do. An attraction of a non-blockchain solution - it is so much easier to write robust code: put an API around a central server, write good acceptance tests.