Blockchain- the trust protocol- perfect tracking for finite resources. What it needs is ML to become a brain for resource use.

I’ve been delving into blockchain tech, and from what I can understand…

It’s a decentralised network (at the moment its housing transactions, but these could become pieces of content, thoughts, any form of data in the future).

This decentralised network stores each engagement (transaction) into blocks, and each new block contains the data of the previous blocks, as well as new data, so that data can never be tampered with… great… like a thought that is not manipulated.

These seemingly separate transaction “dendrites” could be connected with some thought, or learning, to produce thinking.

What I mean is, if we add machine learning to this massive dataset (right now consisting of transactions only), the machine learning system could understand the data, spot trends, start to “Think” rationally based on the data it’s already been given. This could be used for predictive analysis etc.

Decentralised thoughts or interactions, fed into a blockchain (record keeping / ledger), with efficiency and transparency, so that machine learning could be deployed on this data (Fixing the biggest challenge in machine learning at the moment- bad/dirty data, since all the data in the blockchain is clean, clear and transparent)

This would leave us a decentralised brain, that could learn, and would be learning from what ever ran on the blockchain (doesn’t need to be transactions- could be feedback from smart devices, could be actual searches online (privacy’s a big problem here), or it could be social media sort of content- although this is dirty data (non factual), but would provide the exact content “Netflix” would be looking for to know exactly what type of entertainment the human race is wanting.

All of this data thus far starts off when a limited number of coins (could also be resources of any kind with a fixed number) is “Minted” and then begins to be transacted with. Im seeing the potential of this to become actual fixed resources that we already have… Aka… water… or natural minerals, and each time it moves from one spot to the next, or gets used, we could track it, on a blockchain, openly and transparently. With machine learning coupled to this, we would be able to run predictive analysis on ACTUAL fixed resources (no longer a number of coins, but actual litres of water on the earth… something like that (this is a very VERY simplified version of the idea because quantifying that resources would be a project on its own).

Blockchain, the trust protocol, coupled with machine learning. THAT would be a true disruption of the world. Suddenly, the entire population, would be held accountable for every resource used. Sounds unpleasant, but could definitely get the earth back on track.