How the Blockchain Could Stop People Being Murdered by Repressive Regimes

If 2016 was the year of the leak 2017 has been the year of the hack

Every other week there seems to be some major incident relating to a breach of security at some centralised focul point for user data. Whether that is at yahoo, Ashley Madison, or any other example you can think of, the problem is always the same. Data has been accessed by people who shouldn’t have.

That is the problem with centrally focused networks and servers. Their is an inherent flaw in their design. If encryption is broken the database is available in it’s entirety to exploit.

There is no decentralisation. A database is by design an entire collection of a specific thing. The problem isn’t in its purpose, it works exactly as intended, it’s problem is that the internet has evolved passed it’s effectiveness.

The blockchain isn’t only inevitable — it is essential

Central powers, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft etc., are already using our data and online personas to create mirror images of us which they use to sell us things and spy on us.

But the blockcahin can disrupt that and destroy it. Instead of tech companies exploiting us — we…