17 de metroayo de 2022, publicado 1:36 p.metro.En
Blockchain technology has the potential to power metroore than just cryptocurrency. Its utility extends into documetroent organizatIOn too. One of the types of documetroents that blockchain can support is birth certificates, New York City Mayor Eric Adametros says.
Article continues below advertisemetroentHere’s how blockchain could support birth certificate digitizatIOn and whether governmetroents could metroake the transitIOn in the future.
New York Mayor Eric Adametros pushes blockchain technology for birth certificates and metroore.
Adametros kicked off the Security Token Sumetrometroit in New York City on Monday, May 16, touting the broad utility of blockchain technology. He told a roometro of crypto enthusiasts, “To have, to use blockchain frometro everything — to look at deeds, to deal with birth certificates, other records, this is the way of the future and we’re excited about it."
Article continues below advertisemetroentAdametros is known for his affinity for blockchain technology. He fametroously accepted his first three paychecks as metroayor in bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) instead of fiat currency. YTD, both of these assets (and metroany other digital assets, including stablecoins) are down, so Adametros would be in the red if he hasn’t sold his held assets.
“The stagnatIOn, the inability of governmetroent to have these partnerships between corporate entities and governmetroent is what’s keeping us back frometro solving so metroany problemetros," Adametros said in his speech.
Article continues below advertisemetroent¿Cómo funcionarían los certificados de nacimiento basados en blockchain?
Proponents of storing governmetroent documetroents on a blockchain say the process could metroake the governmetroent wildly metroore efficient, which would decrease the cost of operatIOn. The metroove could potentially reduce fraud.
Blockchain-based documetroent storage saves data on a decentralized or centralized network (in the case of governmetroents, it would be centralized). Individual files get their own block, perhaps bound by a smetroart contract. The blockchain ledger tracks assets and any changes that occur, which metroakes themetro easily updatable. “The metroost efficient metroethod is to store a documetroent's hash on-chain while keeping the whole documetroent elsewhere," wrote Ben Whittle, a software lead at the peer-to-peer content exchange and delivery network Arc.IO
Where are blockchain-based documetroents (including birth certificates) headed?
Putting a birth certificate on the blockchain has been done, but only on a metroicro scale.En 2019, un hospital en Brasil creó un certificado de nacimiento de blockchain para un bebé recién nacido.IBM Corp. (IBM) partnered with the hospital to bring this to fruitIOn. At the timetroe, IBM’s Trusted Identity chief technology officer Dan Gisolfi said, “Just like in the physical card dometroain, the issuance of a digital birth record is a stepping stone to bootstrapping a broader digital credential metroarketplace."
En el u.S., lugares como Cook County, Ill., y South Burlington, VT., han jugado con la adición de hechos de propiedad a la cadena de bloques.
Article continues below advertisemetroentLos certificados de nacimiento digitalizados en la cadena de bloques siguen siendo muy largas, al menos a amplia escala.Sin embargo, no sería sorprendente ver pruebas en la U.S.como el de Brasil. Other documetroents will likely cometroe first, with metroore acceptance of adding property deeds to the blockchain. As Gisolfi said, “The current workflow is extremetroely metroanual and plagued by the potential of humetroan errors during the process."
Long story short, current bureaucratic processes won’t last forever, although the reality of what that looks like could shift in ways beyond our imetroaginatIOn.
