A question of timing

The economic impact of smart ledgers is their ability to reduce the impact of which problem?

Global identity

Timekeeping

Central third party

Distributed database storage

How do traditional Central Third Parties 'cheat'?

Falsify records

Extract 'excessive rents' for providing information

Extract 'excessive rents' for adding new assets or transactions to a central ledger

All of these answers

Why did the early internet innovators not provide an 'internet of record' by, say, 1980?

It was economically infeasible

Hashing was confused with checksums

Several key technologies were missing

An 'internet of record' was technically impossible

Which of the following is an unlikely application of a smart ledger?

Identity system for sharing client information for anti-money laundering purposes

Foreign Exchange (FX) trading system

Internal petty cash ledger

Loyalty points scheme among several retailers

What applications might internal auditors find for smart ledgers?

Archiving in a verifiable way

Forcing disclosure of conformity to high-risk internal processes

Regulatory reporting

All of these answers

What is not part of the definition of 'smart ledger'?

Superb audit trail

Multi-organisational

Artificial intelligence

Data structure

Timestamping is:

A fundamental, and often sufficient, benefit of smart ledgers

Not a worthwhile use of smart ledgers

Only useful when part of a 'smart contract'

Only useful when done in conjunction with geostamping

Data markets are being built using techniques except:

Deep crypto tunnelling

Anonymisation

Deontic logic

Zero-knowledge proofs

The article provides examples of smart ledger timestamping in all but one application:

Puffin sampling

Fisheries

Fire door inspections

Clinical health records

The author is a fan of:

Cryptocurrencies

Using smart ledgers for timestamping

Making governments accept cryptocurrencies for tax payments

Using smart contracts for payments

The economic impact of smart ledgers is their ability to reduce the impact of which problem?

How do traditional Central Third Parties 'cheat'?

Why did the early internet innovators not provide an 'internet of record' by, say, 1980?

Which of the following is an unlikely application of a smart ledger?

What applications might internal auditors find for smart ledgers?

What is not part of the definition of 'smart ledger'?

Timestamping is:

Data markets are being built using techniques except:

The article provides examples of smart ledger timestamping in all but one application:

The author is a fan of:

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