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I guess the problem NFTs try to solve is authority holding the initial verification tied to the video. If it’s on a blockchain, theoretically no one owns it and the date/metadata is etched in stone, whereas otherwise some entity has to publish the initial hash.

In other words, one can hash a video, yeah, but how do you know when that hashed video was taken? From where? There has to be some kind of hard-to-dispute initial record (and even then that only works in contexts where the videos earliest date is the proof, so to speak, like recording and event as it happens).

Those would probably be a part of it.

Comparing a hashcode implies you have a verifiable source for the original footage.

You can do this manually and dig for the author but thats not always that simple.

A second step would be to build In a reference to the record in each media file, expressed as a small clickable logo.

You grandma deserves to be capable to verify.

With your scheme you can't prove the timing of when the hash was made, nor who made the hash. At the very least the camera would have to include something that proves the time in the hash, and then sign the result with a private key that can't be extracted from the camera.

I could sell you a virtual deed to the Golden Gate Bridge right now, you could buy it but it doesn't really mean anything.

Yeah, that's possibly the most famous scam in history (people selling deeds to the Brooklyn Bridge), enough to where "I've got a bridge to sell you" is a figure of speech for calling someone gullible or naive.

And then despite the world knowing about the Brooklyn Bridge scam, the cryptobros actually went and found a bunch of suckers to fall for the exact same scam, only with blockchains instead of notary seals.

There's not much difference between a government run land registry and a decentralized land registry

The virtual deeds would be great for game licences and trading second hand games online

I mean we use fiat currency

the issue isnt that it is virtual

This is correct.

This is a flaw i had considered and never found a solution for. Hence the idea is unfinished.

The only further argument i have is that manipulating camera techniques is as old as film yet it’s the digital tools that are causing the most harm and allow any troll to partake. Staging a scene takes at least some dedication and effort.

If such would be considered on the blockchain than it would also bring in questions all other footage by the same recorder device. “Wallets” from established authors, anonymous or not would have their own reputations of trustworthyness.

There are decentralized oracles. That's how DAI tracks the price of USD.