Archaeology and blockchain technology

[Duncan Head]

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/02/archaeology-and-blockchain-a-social-science-data-revolution

New technology and the storing of artefact data: more "antiquities" than "archaeology" per se, I'd have said.

[Patrick Waterson]

Accurately observed.  In essence, a worldwide checkable antiquities ownership database, which will be useful if people actually bother to register their possessions and acquisitions, something many questionable owners have not felt any need for in the past.

[Jim Webster]

Accurately observed.  In essence, a worldwide checkable antiquities ownership database, which will be useful if people actually bother to register their possessions and acquisitions, something many questionable owners have not felt any need for in the past.

There again many owners who have perfect title might just shrug and move on. I read the article, stopped, went back to the article 'blockchain explained' and read through that.
Until I got to the sentence ""Suddenly you can bootstrap an entire network that can achieve internet-level consensus about the state and authenticity of a block's contents in a decentralized way."

I thought, whoopee, and gave up 

[Tim]

Jim

If I understood all that I would have given up already...