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> If I have proof that I paid you cash for a service, and then proof you didn't provide that service, I absolutely expect to be able to reverse that transaction, via the legal system.

That's very different from what's meant by "reversible transactions" in the context of other payment systems. If the legal system can dictate the reversal of a cash transaction, then it can do so for a crypto transaction - without either needing to have some explicit protocol to do so.

> That level of resilience is completely unnecessary

That's just, like, your opinion, man.

> And who will hold these NFTs?

The owners of the properties they represent.

> And where will the data the NFTs sign be stored?

NFTs can store arbitrary data.

> If they want to distribute the NFTs to the current owners of the houses, than they now need to establish an Ethereum/Cardano/[...] wallet for each person who owns a house in their district

Which is many orders of magnitude easier than the current system.

Besides, it doesn't have to be all or nothing; a gradual opt-in transition would be perfectly doable.

> If they want to make them part of the NFTs and store them on-chain, then minting the NFTs will be exorbitant

On just about anything noteworthy that's not Ethereum, the cost is on the scale of cents. Wow, such unaffordable, many expensive.

And no, you don't need physical scans of the original documents. A transcription will do fine.




> That's just, like, your opinion, man.

Mine and everyone else's who holds important information in databases. The whole financial system for one.

> NFTs can store arbitrary data.

Up to some size.

> Which is many orders of magnitude easier than the current system.

It is not. The current system scales with the number of home transactions. Your proposal scales with the number of homes - a much bigger number.

> Besides, it doesn't have to be all or nothing; a gradual opt-in transition would be perfectly doable.

Sure, but then it's just a whole bunch of extra work for no benefits for 10-20 years. Not just for the county clerk, but also for home owners and buyers: not only will they still need to process the existing requirements, they would also have new requirements to obtain and prove ownership of their ETH/other crypto wallet. And they wouldn't see any advantage at all until the next time they sell their home (hopefully they will still remember their wallet address and private key by then!).

> On just about anything noteworthy that's not Ethereum, the cost is on the scale of cents. Wow, such unaffordable, many expensive.

Well, there are exactly two block chains that are somewhat noteworthy outside the crypto bubble: Bitcoin and Ethereum. And Bitocin doesn't support NFTs.

And any other block gain that becomes even mildly popular quickly explodes in values and transaction fees just like the other two. Turns out that storing hundreds of thousands of copies of the same data, and writing every single transaction to hundreds of thousands of systems before it is considered settled, without any kind of permission system, is actually very costly.

Note: you're right on the cash transaction statement, to some extent. There are still some important differences I feel, mainly related to the fact that today's systems enforce knowing the legal identity of parties to a transaction for something like a house, even if the sale is done in cash - which wouldn't be guaranteed if the house could be traded by selling an NFT on a chain.


> Mine and everyone else's who holds important information in databases.

If your opinion is that your information warrants less redundancy and resiliency than what Zoomer cryptobros get with their sad monkey NFTs, then maybe your information ain't all that important?

> Up to some size.

That size being more than sufficient to store a land parcel's coordinates, address, and other identifying data.

> The current system scales with the number of home transactions. Your proposal scales with the number of homes - a much bigger number.

They both scale with both. Or do you propose that the current system instantaneously sprung into existence without spending centuries distributing paper deeds beforehand?

> Sure, but then it's just a whole bunch of extra work for no benefits for 10-20 years.

If you don't consider the greatly improved auditability and resiliency to be a benefit then that's further reason to question whether your opinion is actually representative of people with important information needing stored.

> not only will they still need to process the existing requirements, they would also have new requirements to obtain and prove ownership of their ETH/other crypto wallet

That doesn't logically follow. It's quite possible for it to be a "one or the other" deal.

And ownership is pretty trivial to prove: you either can initiate transactions with that wallet's private key or you can't.

> Well, there are exactly two block chains that are somewhat noteworthy outside the crypto bubble: Bitcoin and Ethereum.

There are a lot more than only two which are noteworthy. That you believe otherwise is itself reason enough to disregard your comment as thoroughly misinformed...

> And any other block gain that becomes even mildly popular quickly explodes in values and transaction fees just like the other two.

...as is this. There are multiple NFT-capable blockchains that have demonstrated better scalability both in theory and practice by virtue of them using a consensus method more sane than burning energy on useless SHA256 hashes.

> There are still some important differences I feel, mainly related to the fact that today's systems enforce knowing the legal identity of parties to a transaction for something like a house, even if the sale is done in cash - which wouldn't be guaranteed if the house could be traded by selling an NFT on a chain.

It wouldn't necessarily need to be guaranteed, because the information is already in a public ledger. If you want to get fancy you could address that further with NFTs representing personal identification (which has other applications, like tracking licenses and certifications and other endorsements, but I digress).




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