Yeah it’s not ideal, but you only need to pay the gas cost when you need to prove integrity and that’s alot cheaper than having to constantly be in sync with the world.
The audit logging sounds interesting. If you combine it with some kind of encryption, then I can imagine it working pretty well. Aside from the logistical problems/gas cost, that is.
nibblebit@programming.dev 1 year ago
atheken@programming.dev 1 year ago
There is no incentive for adding the friction of gas or PoW for these types of systems.
The parties involved can have a shared log and private keys for signing entries. Party A provides a thing and Party B signs an entry that says they were provided with the thing. Party A can wait for that signed entry before releasing the goods, etc. The problem with block chain to track physical stuff is that that handoffs are not instantaneous, so there’s always lag between the real state of the world and what the log says. In practice, this may be a few seconds, and a human might wait for confirmation before physically granting access to a recipient.