Why doesn’t a normal database bring the same provenance?
Transactions can be removed or lost.
normal databases can be corrupted so they would not bring the same provenance
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Digital Provenance implies Digital Traceability, means that everything can be accessed online and blockchain being Immutable and Transparent, track of everything can be kept without hassle and worry of data getting corrupted.
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Normal Database are usually centralised and can be edited. Thus, data in these database can be corrupted and manipulate it.
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Digital Provenance is beneficial of business as it creates more transparency in the system. Dependency and concept of trust on the others reduces as the process can be verified at any stage. Thus, removing the middlemen and adulation in the process improves efficiency and verification of the process in real time and at one place.
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1. How does blockchain enable digital provenance?
- Blockchain refers to decentralised public ledger/ database which works on append only principle. Adding new data/transaction is only possible through through nodes in decentralised manner that verifies it. This way transactions are immutable and can’t be manipulated.
2. Why doesn’t a normal database bring the same provenance?
- Normal databases are usually centralised and can be mutated (at least from the top level entities who has more access rights).
3. Why is digital provenance such a great benefit to many businesses?
- Many businesses depend on trust from other parties and this trust can be on different scale. With digital provenance, businesses can get rid of this trust factor and possibly eliminate the need of middlemen to process certain things. This may also lead to lower operating costs while preserving the historical data in
as-isstate.
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- Permanent, unalterable, redundant history.
- Data can be altered/manipulated.
- Quality control, proof against fraud, customer satisfaction in knowing “source to table” (origin to completion).
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1: every change on the blockchain is traceable from the first to the last transaction. as a transaction on blockchain will be only accepted (and written down and approved) when it can be verified that one is telling the truth, digital provenance written down in the blockchain becomes reliable.
2: a normal database usually is centralized and mostly not accessible from outside, this solution is not reliable. being the db in possess of only one party, it can not be assured that this party is not manipulating something, we can not verify if the truth is being told.
3: Digital provenance is such a great benefit to many businesses for various reasons:
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businesses people do not trust in (such as food industry) could make transparent their whole delivery chain. this way people do not have to trust but can verify by themselves. This way, in the future, theorically the winners would be the businesses that don’t play “dirty” games (e.g. food producers using raw materials from not environmental friendly sources,…)
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accounting and transactions are becoming one. this could mean a simplification for business administration, but also a high transparency for governments etc when it comes to taxation.
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How does blockchain enable digital provenance?
Because allows each involved part to certify on the blockchain the provenience of a certain item -
Why doesn’t a normal database bring the same provenance?
For two reasons: a normal centralized database is controlled by somebody and so trust is needed toward this subject. Second reason is that a normal database can be changed, while the blockchain not. -
Why is digital provenance such a great benefit to many businesses?
Because a certain and verifiable information is much better than an uncertain information
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Blockchain enables trustless verification of all transactions. Every aspect of a transaction, from the accounting layer to the transactional layer, is permanently recorded and cannot be removed.
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Normal databases can be altered, changed, lost or deleted. Normal databases are centralized. Therefore there is an element of trust between parties to determine if data is unaltered.
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Digital provenance is decentralized and public record. Since every account and transaction are verified above all and audited in real time, trust is removed. It is impossible to remove or alter any aspect of a transaction on the blockchain. Customers will be confident that any transaction is verified, transparent and true.
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How does blockchain enable digital provenance?
With blockchain, all transactions, data etc is permanently added to the database. Therefore everything can be traced and tracked all the way back to its origin. When you can see where something is from where is went and how it got to you, you don’t have to trust in something or a company when its simply verified on the network. -
Why doesn’t a normal database bring the same provenance?
A normal data base has one copy and can easily be manipulated and changed. If something were to change, there is nothing to prove what is right and wrong, or what it true or false. This makes a central database undependable and insecure for its users -
Why is digital provenance such a great benefit to many businesses?
For businesses who provide organic produce, or clothing produced humanely, etc they can prove that their products are exactly what they market them as and show the true value of their product.
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1.Data is inputted into an decentralized network that is immutable.
2.Normal centralized databases are prone to manipulation of data.
3.Increases efficacy and all data is traceable. Also immutable.
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- Blockchain is immutable (like digital stone) so it can’t be tampered
- Because usually a database is held by a private company in central servers and you can’t trust their good fait. Eventually they can be hacked
- Because it enables the tracing of goods, and chain supply.
Comment: I don’t know if provenance is going to be a good application, because even if you use a blockchain how can you trust the people that are filling the specific data (like good routing, authenticity of the goods etc.) on the blockchain?
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- By using public blockchain you can trace every single step that has been done on the ledger
- Because it has one point of failure and is usually controlled by few people who can edit any information at any time
- Cause you don’t need to trust anyone, you can verify it through the public ledger
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How does blockchain enable digital provenance?
History: All parties validate the new block. All incremental changes are recorde, or at least all Input can be made transparent for validation purpose (although dependent of transparency configuration)
Decentralized compiling of the new block is the concept that differs from traditional Transaction Management. -
Why doesn’t a normal database bring the same provenance?
Middleman authorizations could be used in a way inappropriate, as democratic validation is not part of traditional concepts.
Normal db can be manipulated, whose incident is not by nature registered. -
Why is digital provenance such a great benefit to many businesses?
Complexity reduction by lack of middleman.
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Homework on Provenance questions
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Blockchain allows for digital provenance by creating an immutable digital record of a ‘transaction’. All information of the ‘transaction’ is stored on the blockchain. These records cannot be undone once verified by the blockchain network. It is trust less.
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Databases today cannot provide this there is a disconnect or lag between the ‘transaction’ and recording of the ‘transaction’. The verification process (proving a transaction happened) is often handle by 3rd party and often a large amount of data over a period of time is needed to be reconciled.
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Digital provenance is a great benefit to business in many ways. With a digital record of their ‘transactions’ logged and verified on the blockchain this changes the auditing needs. From streamlining a business to company reducing the need for 3rd parties and reducing the need for trust. Digital provenance is probably the sleeping giant in this tech
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1-How does blockchain enable digital provenance?
Blockchain technology is like a ‘digital stone’. It means that you can write data, but not remove it, so it’s permanently added to the database. All that data that is added to the chain is tracked.
2-Why doesn’t a normal database bring the same provenance?
For 2 main reasons:
- A standard database belongs to something/someone, so it’s centralized. Since it’s centralized, someone can alter it at any time without being tracked by the rest of us (the opposite of a network and public ledger).
- Data can’t be removed, just added (and tracked).
3- Why is digital provenance such a great benefit to many businesses?
It provides transparency, immutability, decentralization and security. All these is traduced in trustlessness. Don’t trust.
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- The blockchain enables digital provenance because this public ledger requires verification in order to continue without removal of any data.
- A normal database requires third party trust which can go bad if the third party decides to be opaque or dishonest.
- More efficient, requires less trust, and uses a decentralized platform giving no one individual too much authority.
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Blockchain enables provenance through two of its most important characteristics, which are Immutability and Verification. Once a majority of the network nodes on a blockchain confirms/ verifies the transaction on the consensus protocols, it cannot be changed, edited, deleted and duplicated. And all the transactions can be traced and tracked by all the nodes on the blockchain that have the complete blockchain or ledger.
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A normal database wont have the same provenance with a blockchain for the following reasons
i. it is subject to human error.
ii. it can be manipulated or edited. -
Digital provenance is such a great benefit to businesses for the following reasons:
i. All transactions can be traced and tracked in realtime.
ii. It will improve efficiency in businesses.
iii. it will improve trust for both sellers and buyers. for example- Manufacturers of items would be able to verify where their raw materials are being sourced from, as well as their quantities and quality. while buyers would be able to verify products purchased are from the actual manufacturers
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- How does blockchain enable digital provenance?
By being imutable and can never be reversed or change. - Why doesn’t a normal database bring the same provenance?
Since information can always be edited/changed at a later time. Thee information is not written in stone and does not come with a ledger. - Why is digital provenance such a great benefit to many businesses?
Since too be sure the origin of the information can be 100% guaranteed brings value. Information can not be changed or erased.
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Blockchain is an irreversible ledger of transactions- a master web of connection data time stamps in digital space that cannot be refuted. Therefor it will forever remove and or change forensic investigation of fraud { in most cases } due to the clarity of transparency because of its foundation structure, the Beautiful Blockchain.
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In most cases the centralized databases are privately owned mega-structures of vast collection of human data both corporate and personal { psychological, physical, social, medical, intellectual, consumer behavior } that are deceitfully invasive and aggressively exchanging mans right of privacy to exaggerated convenience.
These entities, whether governmental or private, will manipulate and shape opinion to further their agendas of mass control.
It is unreasonable to expect them to act in true integrity and honor when we have history guide us clearly to what men do time and again given the opportunity. -
It has the potential to completely remove Accounting as we know it through accurate real time auditing.
It also hugely increases value of services and production because it authenticates the ’ advertising label’ without the need of manipulative deceitful marketing jargon - trust-less.
I don’t have to prove jack as its all verified in an open source decentralized clarification pond of transparency.
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1 How does blockchain enable digital provenance?
Blockchain is an immutable ledger that eliminates fraud, the blockchain is connected through a large network of individual computers which makes it decentralised.
2 Why doesn’t a normal database bring the same provenance?
Normal databases can be centralised and therefore can be manipulated as they can choose who audits or edits their databases.
3 Why is digital provenance such a great benefit to many businesses?
It can cut out the middleman and save costs while at the same time guarantee authentic results that are trustless.
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- By ensuring no data can ever be removed from the blockchain;
- Because it doesn’t connect the “accounting” layer with the “transactions” layer;
- It ensures un-falsifiable accountability and transparency for all transactions.
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