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Blockchain is an immutable digital real time record. It is possible to track where everything is coming from. Information can still be encrypted, but it is accessible.
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Normal database is usually centralized. Which means that it is corruptible, expensive and it could take some time to get information.
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Digital provenance means real time auditing. You don’t have to trust anyone, you can verify everything for yourself.
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How does blockchain enable digital provenance?
The immutability nature of open blockchain enables digital provenance . Once written it can never be removed and new data can be added through consensus mechanism building unblocken chain of traceability. -
Why doesn’t a normal database bring the same provenance?
They are centralized and can be chanced. normal database are mutable. -
Why is digital provenance such a great benefit to many businesses?
Easier to track and verify the origin of your ingredients.
Digital provenance put accounting layer together with transitional layer enabling real time auditing. This makes financial process more efficient and save (auditing) cost.
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- Provenance can be achieved by logging every transaction since the first transaction and making the record public.
- Databases can be updated, and in general, there is no record of this change embedded in the actual database. There is in general a centralized database control.
- We can have a real-time status of accounts by processing all visible records.
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Blockchain enables digital provenance by enabling anyone to audit the origin / ownership history of goods (either digital or physical). An artist can use the blockchain to stamp their original work. This is done by embedding a digital signature which verifies the authenticity and this gets recorded on the blockchain (referred to as tokenization). This good can then be sold and the private key gets passed on as well. This all gets recorded on the blockchain, so a buyer that is several degrees detached from the original artist, can verify the chain of ownership and the source of the good that they purchased.
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A normal database is not trustless. If you are using a normal database, it is centralized, and you are trusting that it hasn’t been tampered with in any way. Since Blockchain is trustless, and there is no way to forge it, you don’t run into this issue with Blockchain.
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Businesses will be able to give their customers confidence in their products by being transparent.
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- How does blockchain enable digital provenance?
The blockchain functions as a ‘digital stone’ as a data structure where only new information can be added whilst previously added information can never be removed. Hence, all the data can be traced with integrity.
- Why doesn’t a normal database bring the same provenance?
A normal database may be centralised and thus there is always possibility for alterations to be made to both past and future data stored in the data structure.
- Why is digital provenance such a great benefit to many businesses?
Provenance is about the ability to track something with integrity, so the ‘trust’ element to external parties no longer has to be relied on.
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1.Blockchain only allows data to be stored in it while the digital provenance is the detailed data or information that is stored inside the block chain.
2.because a normal database can be edited or manipulated while the digital provenance cannot be manipulated or edited. What is written on it, when it is written, everything is recorded at the same time in digital provenance.
3.because of its credibility, cannot be edited, cannot be manipulated. And also because of its real time auditing.
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First of all when we talk about blockchain, we are basically talking about not only one copy of database but we are talking about multiple ledgers that are keeping these datas and any how someone wants to claim a false provenance or a double spent, things will have no legitimacy. And we can say since these datas are not to be removed it’s pretty safe to say that blockchain is the black box of all these data and no one can remove anything from it.
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Normal data can be faked. for example because there are no actual way to find out about a product legitimacy other than their own supplier things will become pretty easy to fake.
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It has no geographical limits, reliable and fast. it’s much cheaper.
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By saving all transactions in the Database, where you can just add things and not remove anything, that`s public, so everyone can see everything and track where it come from.
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A normal Database is centralized, through that, it can be hacked and manipulated so there is trust involved.
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No trust needed, verify through real time tracability.
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Real-time auditing of both open and encrypted data; a game changer in terms of efficiency and accuracy.
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A traditional database is centralized and trusted; data can be destroyed, manipulated, etc.
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With the newfound efficiency of blockchains, businesses can lower costs in most, if not all, cost centers and increased the bottom-line. Accounting (audits, reporting, statements, standards), operations (supply and inventory tracking), tech (data security, intrusion protections, decentralized data-housing, etc.) and much more!
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Why not send a token to a new owner instead of passing keys? How can you know the person that gave you the private key didn’t keep a copy for himself? 
1- By being a public ledger which is open for auditing.
2- It is centralized therefore you would need to trust the owner of the database.
3-Eliminating the factor of trust you can verify that products being put into your business are top quality.
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Blockchain creates an environment where there is verification instead of trust. The computers in the blockchain network contain both the accounting and transaction information which are easily audited. The information contained therein provides the transparency necessary to authenticate origin and veracity of transactions.
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Normal databases to not consider both the accounting and the transaction at the same time. There are tedious checks and balances that are subject to manipulations on both sides of the transaction that do not exist in the blockchain environment. Blockchain protocols do away with accounting that complicates and consequently hides the nature and origin of transactions.
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Digital provenance is a great boon to many businesses as it cuts out much financial management and the cost of same in favor of direct financial results reporting. It’s transparency allows businesses to make better decisions by allowing them to see more of what other businesses offer in B2B transactions and thus makes it easier to choose partners, vendors, trade associations, utility providers, etc. It enables them to see the quality of what’s being offered, the manner in which products were acquired, manufactured and more. There is cost savings in accounting and finance, and better quality information for overall cost-effective decisions. There are opportunities for building a reputation based on company integrity.
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How does blockchain enable digital provenance?
All of the transactions can be tracked. -
Why doesn’t a normal database bring the same provenance?
Data in normal database can be manipulated because it’s centralized which means normal database can be changed. -
Why is digital provenance such a great benefit to many businesses?
They are able to track all ingredients and is verified.
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How does blockchain enable digital provenance?
Blockchain stores all transactions that have ever been made. It can be added to but not deleted or changed and this is done through consensus.
Blockchain allows people and organisations worldwide to participate in the blockchain giving them the ability to download a copy of the ledger and be part of the verification of proposed transactions. -
Why doesn’t a normal database bring the same provenance?
Most databases are private and sit within an organisation or institution
Normal databases don’t operate a consensus model for adding, changing or deleting data therefore they can be corrupted and manipulated by small number of internal users or outside hackers regardless of the functionality built into the database front end or security. Because of this vulnerability databases are often backed up daily in case of lose, corruption or manipulation. Blockchain provenance enforces only verified changes to be written to the block and therefore minimises data corruption, manipulation or hacking -
Why is digital provenance such a great benefit to many businesses?
Digital Provence will allow business globally to reduce the amount of data they hold in silos and operate on a global level through public chains through verified data. This will potentially reduce costs and security risks to the organisation.
Operating a blockchain will bring a greater amount of trust in the data and allow them to exchange data and transaction between business in pure confidence that the exchange is being recorded correctly and accurately, safe in the knowledge that it won’t be deleted or changed and is fully auditable.
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1.) The blockchain enables digital provenance by allowing anyone in the world that has access to internet track each transaction carefully and not trust everything by just a word or a say or a feeling. everything can be tracked and traced and this means that we will always know whether someone is lying or telling the truth
2.) Because Normal Databases are owned by companies, governments, individuals. and they cannot be changed without permission or verification from said owners. While the blockchain is completely public and not owned by anyone. and therefore it does not need anyone’s approval or permission to get something done.
3.) Because it allows us to not trust but to verify everything so that we can actually see where things have gone to and where they come from. we can let go of trust completely and just verify 100% if it is correct or a lie.
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Blockchain enables digital provenance through the ability to add data to the blockchain but not remove it in the future - blockcahin regarded as a ‘digital stone’ as data can be added but not removed.
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A normal database will be under the control of a central authority and therefore either kept from the public eye and not freely accessible or the control the abiltiy to change the data - blockchain should be decentralised.
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Digital Provenance allows the ability to track the history of actions, removes the trust needed in others and allows the real time tracking and auditing of the transactions on the blockchain.
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- How does blockchain enable digital provenance?
Blockchain is a public ledger with complete transparency that records transactions & information data.
2 Why doesn’t a normal database bring the same provenance?
An ordinary data base is information controlled by a single entity or company that is not transparent requiring a trust layer.
3 Why is digital provenance such a great benefit to many businesses?
Provenance means all information is recorded during a transaction in real time, so everything can be verified or tracked.
Through real time auditing details are all verified in one transaction , reduces risk , saves time , removes trust.
Provenance also removes the need for trust in a number of circumstances that benefits business for example supply, verification of capital or POS , verification of proof of work , Origin etc
No information can be changed or manipulated and the ledger can be easily accessed.
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- Blockchains should have authentic verification of the data transaction (date/time stamp). Additionally, it is open source, so it can be viewed by any entity at any time (24/7 365/Y) and that results in open access to the ledger. It is immutable and cannot be historically censored or erased.
- Centralized databases can be controlled through electricity, censorship, politics, and malleability of the data. Additonally, the hardware if centrally owned and controlled can be destroyed or sabotaged in an effort to change the history of transactions.
- Digital Provenance provides real time records that are available globally that track the transactions from cradle to grave of an item or service.
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- By keeping a public ledger every step along the process of a products creation and transportation can be tracked step by step and verified
- Centralized databases are private owned they are editable and there for subject to the owners discretion what is shared
- Becauseevery step can traced and verified it allows for trustlessness giving business more information about their products giving buyer more faith in the products and distributors
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- Records can’t be erased. Has a public ledger that anyone can check. Anyone can add anything to the ledger.
- Need to trust the database owner. Can’t support ad-hoc auditing.
- Customers can easily verify business claims. Don’t have to trust any particular business. The business can prove they do or do not have an issue.
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