Blockchain Could Improve The Legal System

I've been watching a crime series lately, so much that I've frankly put almost everything else on pause for it.

Do I regret this? Of course not, movies have always been a way for me to blow off steam. That said, what I did not think I'd enjoy is a crime series. I'm mostly into horror, adventure and comedic-action.

But crime? I usually don't go searching for those. But let's skip the petty talks, what does this have to do with anything?

Well, it's no news that there's absolutely nothing legal about the legal system, how ironic right?

Like anyone that's got their eyes open, I've always known these facts, but what I did not know was how much more thrilling it could be to experience a glimpse of how dirty it could actually be.

Note, I used the wording “thrilling” and now throwing more emphasis on it.

It is weird, that as humans we sometimes derive pleasure in the weirdest of things, and the best part of it — if we consider our entire existence a big “comic tragedy” — is that we consider what we do at all times to be “good” or rightful, based on the most delusional of reasons out there.

Is that a design or flaw?

I'm sure that if I was the engineer working on the creation of humans, such a significant feature would not be a bug.

Moving forward, I would say that being exposed to this much “visual narrative” of what the legal system looks like made me have to sit a moment in my thoughts and as I picked up a book to write random words to come up with a story for writing, I wrote down “NFTs.”

I was immediately hit with a question: why do people lie?

Then another: why do people do bad things?

Cause, when you think about the opposites of those questions, you get the answer for the former quite easily.

People lie because there's a belief system that they can get away with doing so, mostly because “no one would know” and the same can be said for why people do bad things.

When you're up in certain ranks, it becomes practically near-impossible to be accountable to anyone as you entirely control the system that should otherwise persecute you.

But blockchain could fix that.

The average person doesn't know much about the various laws of their place of residence, nor do they know how to adequately gain access to the necessary information in regards to the various legal systems.

To this, the legal system could use a total revamp with blockchain technology.

By storing all legal and governance-related data on the public domain, but not just any public domain, but a domain universally maintained by an incentivized network of nodes that can at the same time be penalized for misconduct, we can effectively bring some good to a system so dirty.

NFTs can play a major role in serving as a piece of on-chain asset taking “data validity” up a notch due to its design.

But of course, we all know that none of this might actually happen because that would expose generations-long history of abuse of the legal and governance system of the world.

Can't have the good without going to war to displace the bad first.

Blockchain is a war machine, to this evidence, and the most threatened system is the government.