Government run then, the institution that is involved with contract oversight here, an easily identifiable authority in this situation. If you don't trust that here, then there's no point in bothering with sales contracts in the first place.
> It'd have to be regularly audited but also kept as up to date as possible. It should have very precise access controls. Also, it should be as fast as possible, and there should be a record of everything that's ever changed. If you want a full copy of it, you should be able to request it at any time.
So like a database with auditing switched on? The type that is already run all over the world for all sorts of things?
> If you want a full copy of it, you should be able to request it at any time.
Like a database that offloads snapshots every so often? And maybe has an API in front of it allowing querying of public data? Like are run ... everywhere? For all sorts of things already?
> It sounds like a lot of work to build that though.
I mean, it sounds exactly like a ton of running systems with fairly standard options, so no, it seems like it would be fairly trivial.
And of course we all know that there are no development costs for blockchain solutions. Nobody needs to build a webpage, or develop smart contracts, or security audit them, or build in permission systems so there can be authority oversight, or provide APIs, no, they all just appear fully formed and fully secure out of the ether... no boring 'work' to build that!
"Blockchain gives you that for free" must be one of the biggest fallacies out there.
> Maybe we can find some nerds to make it for "equity" on the chance that such a database has value?
Doesn't sound to me like we need to give these 'nerds' a continuing stake in a public service. Any old software company can build that sort of thing out for you for a one-off fee. Adding profit motives for unrelated third parties seems to me like a pretty poor choice. But what do I know, perhaps we should introduce more avenues for speculation around the housing market, that sounds healthy.