• Chocrates@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I liked the public ledger of contracts idea someone had. You use the public block chain to sign and store stuff like mortgages, that way everyone sees the same copy.

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      2 months ago

      The problem is that there are much-simpler ways to achieve that, if that’s all you want. You just take a digital copy of the contract, timestamp it, and have each party cryptographically sign the contract. You don’t need a distributed ledger for that.

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        2 months ago

        Distribution ensure integrity of data. Let’s say we sign a contract, cryptographically sign it and all that good stuff but then oh no, where we stored your contract went up in fire and now I don’t have to honour that contract. (contrived example I know)

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          2 months ago

          All parties who are involved in the contract can store a copy of a contract, even if it’s not distributed to everyone else.

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          2 months ago

          The signing ensures the integrity of the data, whether using a public block chain or not.

          The signed document can be distributed as widely as you’d like - it doesn’t need to be attached to a block chain to do this.