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There are other ways of having a distributed immutable ledger than a blockchain, if you don't have the constraints of a decentralized adversarial context. You d
by p4bl0 5y ago
There are other ways of having a distributed immutable ledger than a blockchain, if you don't have the constraints of a decentralized adversarial context. You don't have this context for diplomas.
Also, neither revocation nor security and privacy does seem like good examples of what a blockchain would allow that a non-blockchain based approach wouldn't.
- errantmind 5y agoThat is a big 'if'. The adversarial context is everything. As for diploma's, I'm not sure what your point is. There is nothing decentralized about them.
- p4bl0 5y agoThe adversarial context is everything, but it doesn't exist in most case, because the blockchain is not self sufficient, it needs an external authority to make what's written on it relevant. As for diplomas, I didn't choose this example at random. A lot of startups are trying to sell exactly that. I've been approached myself multiple times about that. And some higher education institutions already do it…