Just wanted to give a personal update - despite my prior skepticism, I'm now bullish on blockchain as a solution to a very real problem we all now have
no idea how it's supposed to work or it if will, but the problem of deciding what's real or not will become acute
To be clear, the thing that I think is worrisome is not, say, the NY times publishing fake photos or whatnot - it’s highly personalized and high quality scams that almost all normal people would fall victim too.
I suspect soon we will want to be contactable only by people we trust - or others we trust have said are trustworthy. But we will also not want to have to rely on one centralized authority to give us this information.
So we will want some kind of hard to manipulate, distributed system without centralized authority that will let us make these determinations. To be clear, I have no idea if there is a tech that can deliver - but the need seems clear & this is what blockchain enthusiasts have claimed is possible
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