Re:You Do Not Need Blockchain: Popular Use Cases and Why The...
by menage on Friday February 22, 2019 @01:44PM
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I don't think you even need a blacklist for this to be of real benefit - if every fancy bottle sold is expected to be accompanied by a blockchain transaction moving the bottle's certificate (originally produced by the winemaker, and unforgeable) then you'll only be able to sell a fancy bottle of wine if at some point in the past you've purchased an equivalent bottle from someone else with a certificate.
There is still the chance that someone along the way consumes the real wine or sells it (at a loss?) to someone who doesn't care about authentication, and then sells on a fake bottle with the real certificate - but:
- at least in that case there would be a well-defined chain of owners that should make it much simpler to figure out who's doing the counterfeiting.
- you can only do this once for each real bottle that you purchase, since you can't forge the certificates.
There is still the chance that someone along the way consumes the real wine or sells it (at a loss?) to someone who doesn't care about authentication, and then sells on a fake bottle with the real certificate - but:
- at least in that case there would be a well-defined chain of owners that should make it much simpler to figure out who's doing the counterfeiting.
- you can only do this once for each real bottle that you purchase, since you can't forge the certificates.