• Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    23 days ago

    The certificate/signature part seems okay for verification.

    It’s the transferable virtual deeds being sold that are the scam. I could sell you a virtual deed to the Golden Gate Bridge right now, you could buy it but it doesn’t really mean anything.

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      23 days ago

      I could sell you a virtual deed to the Golden Gate Bridge right now, you could buy it but it doesn’t really mean anything.

      Yeah, that’s possibly the most famous scam in history (people selling deeds to the Brooklyn Bridge), enough to where “I’ve got a bridge to sell you” is a figure of speech for calling someone gullible or naive.

      And then despite the world knowing about the Brooklyn Bridge scam, the cryptobros actually went and found a bunch of suckers to fall for the exact same scam, only with blockchains instead of notary seals.

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        23 days ago

        It’s kind of like selling a website that redirects to Facebook, and thinking that therefore you own Facebook.

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        22 days ago

        except that the government run land registry can deal with disputes in a flexible and fair manner. A blockchain with smart contracts cannot.

        • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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          22 days ago

          Enforcement of ownership must be off chain. You can still have a disputes procedure using blockchain.

          What a smart contract registry allows is efficient notarisation of non-disputed ownership, which is 95% of the work.