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Re:Introducing A16Z Crypto by dd36 on Monday June 25, 2018 @07:39PM (#17396774)
But you still have to trust the people doing the inspecting and certifying - or whatever. I'd be less worried about them altering information than them altering or substituting actual product.
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Re:Introducing A16Z Crypto by Karrot_Kream on Monday June 25, 2018 @08:10PM (#17396948)
That will always be the case, but given the ease of tracking all the transactions in the chain, you can find the point at which the product deviates. Of course, if every step on that chain has colluded, and produced false attestations, then there's no defense against that. But then, if all parties are coordinating then they've created their own supply chain independent of the one being tracked.
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Re:Introducing A16Z Crypto by dd36 on Monday June 25, 2018 @10:03PM (#17397368)
But, again, solutions to that already exist. Cheats to that system will be cheats to a blockchain system.
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