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Re:A16Z is re-registering as a financial advisor, renouncing... by defen on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @01:02AM (#19560898)
> A public ledger would make property title/ownership simple and knowable.

Only if all the property records are already in the ledger, right? If I buy a house via blockchain, someone can still come along and say their great-aunt should have inherited it 80 years ago, before blockchain records existed. So you still need title companies.

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Re:A16Z is re-registering as a financial advisor, renouncing... by eouw0o83hf on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @09:41AM (#19563197)
For sure - and digitizing that data would take a very long time so it wouldn't be a drop-in replacement for title.

It wouldn't be easy, but it is a good use for the tool.

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