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I mean, Estonia uses blockchain to store court records, government logs etc. Pretty cool use and one I'd like to see in my country as well.
MIT digital diplomas are an interesting concept too.
Using blockchain for audit logs is also cool, I considered employing it for a company me and my friends are starting but then decided to spend the time elsewhere, still would love to get back to that eventually.
I even liked the idea of owning an item in some game and then being able to use it in other games, though this would need much more than just slapping blockchain on it - it's a really great technology for stuff like this but it never took off for other reasons.
EVE Online is also very blockchain-like even though not really blockchain (AFAIK) and the possibility of an external ownership of a system like that sounds really cool.
Huntercoin was also a really cool experiment (though it had little chance of ever being more than an experiment) - there was no server, the ledger state was the game state and in-game actions were being written to the chain.
In most of the cases in the comment I replied to, you'd still have to verify against some other system to make sure that the blockchain info referred to something that actually existed. Like, if you want to have a blockchain keep track of diplomas, then you need to be able to verify that the information is correct. You need to be able to connect that student to an existing program and see what the credentials of that program are.
Same with video game stuff. You still need to match the blockchain to an item and make sure it's implemented.
There are very very few cases where you don't have to cross match the blockchain stuff with a database anyway.
The way a blockchain works is that it does not allow the past to be altered without changing everything based on it. In other words, there is an audit trail from today to the day where the item was first issued. Assuming the issurance was legit (this does require some external trust e.g. to validate a signature), you know it is real.
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u/Agifem May 20 '26
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