!flux11 There are various reasons why writing on-chain migh…
!flux11 There are various reasons why writing on-chain might be/is important:
To proof that something was written at or before a certain moment in time. It could be a cheap solution to current patent offices (which are expensive mainly to "guarantee" a certain level of trust).
To build a long-term future-proof profile about who someone is so that future generations can learn who that someone was.
To assure we still have access to our data/work in case the Treechat team decides to move on and go for pina coladas on a sunny sandy beach.
To hold accountable spreaders of misinformation and this as an alternative of "prebunking" (which leans IMO close to dictatorship).
To assure that a certain file/dataset/source comes from a provable source and shows that it's content was not changed. Recently we have seen a lot of movies/books that were edited because of "no longer appropriate" with which I don't agree! One should see/read those resources through the eyes of that time period. What's next? Overpaint all Ruben's works because "nude" is no longer tolerated?!? Where do we draw the line?
To be able to have access to your data, even as a total outcast, by means of your own software.
To have a platform without any bias or preference: a pure FIFO/LIFO system that shows post in a chronological order
To assure that your data is stored in a decentralized way in order to protect from one-point-of-failure.
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!flux11 I think that my point in 5 is most important.
A few decades ago, I came across Jaron Lanier who is seen (by many )as the founder of Virtual Reality.
After I saw a few videos with him and I read a few articles/books from him I started to realize that somehow we needed a way to proof that a certain VR "experience" was was not tampered/altered.
If VR can be used in a therapeutic way (to heal) as claimed by some researchers, also to opposite can be done: destroy someone's psychic health. I think the "Plank" experience was/is one experiment like that.
I made a bold prediction (back then) that if we are not going to find a solution for that problem, the entire population will end up crazy (in 60 years), no longer knowing what is real and what not. Unfortunately, it didn't take so long!
Even know I see/hear people reading/watching things on the World Wide Web questioning me/themselves "Come on, is this real or not?" and we haven't even scratched the surface of what is possible with these technologies.
There are many fields where on-chain posting is important (IMO). I would say it is preferable that all (unwired)"remote" communication runs over a Blockchain.
The field of bionic body parts. It is preferable that someone can be 100% sure there's no intermediary/hacker (man in the middle) in this kind of communications
[The following video is not mine and is satire]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgtO5sebA9U
!flux11 The field of theft and in particular car theft.
We see a lot of cars, no matter which brand or how expensive they are, being stolen by just extending the "master" key it's signal. By implementing a certain protocol and running this communication over a Blockchain, we can reduce this crimes (IMO).
The same counts for car parts. When car parts are seen as an NFT (digital twin) in a (specific car) collection, their physical representations can not change collection (car) without having a financial counterpart transaction: the digital twin moving between wallets.