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Authority on the blockchain is validated by a bunch of different actors, none who trust each other but reaches consensus anyways. Authority within the moon sha

• Dylan16807 5y ago
  That might matter in a niche case where the ownership of my moon share database entry is in dispute. (And each system has positives and negatives, blockchains aren't a strict upgrade.) But the potential authority over the actual moon is the same under both systems.
  • imgabe 5y ago
    Ownership only ever matters when there's a dispute. If you go build a house on a piece of land, and nobody ever comes along and disputes whether you own that land, does it matter whether you do or not? I mean, we even built into our laws that if you do that and nobody disputes it for long enough, then you get to officially own the land.
    • Dylan16807 5y ago
      > Ownership only ever matters when there's a dispute. Right. And a blockchain only solves a tiny percentage of ownership issues. It solves those issues with powerful mathematical certainty, and if you could live inside a blockchain your problems would be solved*, but don't confuse that sliver with the full set of real-world ownership issues that exist with or without a blockchain being involved. * if there are no bugs or hacks