Blockchain and open database are both a blessing and a curse.
Two questions for you:
Social credit link and eventual punishment from an authoritarian regime based on your entire HIVE history
- Since blockchain lives on forever and there is no privacy option, would this cause risks to users? Or those already living under such a regime?
Cease and desist and prosecution by governments against top witnesses
As HIVE expands it gets more and more expensive to maintain. 30 to 100 are small numbers for state regimes to take out.
Smaller witnesses may not have the know how or capital to carry on the massive amount of decentralized database.
Sure they could do that. But they can do it on any social media site as we are finding out. The governments have their hand in it.
Also, the financial institutions also turn over data so there is that. We are monitored even without blockchain.
The witnesses are global in nature so a government can only focus upon wht is in their jurisdiction. Plus there are many witnesses on Hive who are just a username. Do you know Acidyo real name or where he is from? Doubtful.
So it is much harder than people think.
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