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The Mega-Master Blockchain* List
Draft / Work-in-Progress / Not totally consistent in its categorization
This "Twitter-sourced" list (started March 11, 2014) is an open/rough attempt to brainstorm what asset registries, keys or related items theoretically could be implemented in a blockchain model. They may or may not be good ideas to do in a blockchain or might be good in certain circumstances or others, but that is not this exercise - this is a brainstorming exercise.

* Either the bitcoin blockchain or alternative blockchains

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          I. Financial Instruments, Records and Models
Currency
Private equities
Public equities
Bonds
Derivatives (futures, forwards, swaps, options and more complex variations)
Voting rights associated with any of the above
Commodities
Spending records
Trading records
Mortgage / loan records
Servicing records
Crowd-funding
Micro-finance
Micro-charity

II. Public Records
 
Land titles
Vehicle registries
Business license
Business incorporation / dissolution records
Business ownership records
Regulatory records
Criminal records
Passports
Birth certificates
Death certificates
Voter IDs
Voting
Health / Safety Inspections
Building permits
Gun permits
Forensic evidence
Court records
Voting records
Non-profit records
Government/non-profit accounting/transparency

III. Private Records

 
Contracts
Signatures
Wills
Trusts
Escrows
GPS trails (personal)

IV. Other Semi-Public Records

 
Degree
Certifications
Learning Outcomes
Grades
HR records (salary, performance reviews, accomplishment)
Medical records
Accounting records
Business transaction records
Genome data
GPS trails (institutional)
Delivery records
Arbitration

V. Physical Asset Keys
 
Home / apartment keys
Vacation home / timeshare keys
Hotel room keys
Car keys
Rental car keys
Leased cars keys
Locker keys
Safety deposit box keys
Package delivery (split key between delivery firm and receiver)
Betting records
Fantasy sports records (!)

VI. Intangibles (?)
 
Coupons
Vouchers
Reservations (restaurants, hotels, queues, etc)
Movie tickets
Patents
Copyrights
Trademarks
Software licenses
Videogame licenses
Music/movie/book licenses (DRM)
Domain names
Online identities
Proof of authorship / Proof of prior art

VI. Other
 
Documentary records (photos, audio, video)
Data records (sports scores, temperature, etc)
Sim Cards
GPS network identity
Gun unlock codes
Weapons unlock codes
Nuclear launch codes (!)
Spam control (micro-payments for posting)

I'd love to know how we can get accounting in the blockchain. Like, how could you possibly get business transactions into the blockchain?

if your supplier accepts bitcoin for the products, your staff accept bitcoin for salaries and customer buy the products with bitcoin, then it can be very easy to:
link supplier expenses to a bitcoin address just by showing the address you paid them
link employee expenses to a bitcoin address  just by showing the address you paid them
link customer spending to a bitcoin address  just by showing the address that hoards the incomes from customer transactions.

unlike current accounting systems where people not only need to make spreadsheets and then keep receipts and invoices for 5+ years. if every transaction was bitcoin related you simply store a spreadsheet of addresses

I'd love to know how most of this stuff can be implemented or built onto the blockhain. I keep hearing about all the possibilities but haven't read anything that explains how most of this stuff is possible.

it can be a collectible too  :P

a torrent links places is a good chance too

A decentralized gambling can be done with the blockchain.

What about Rx Prescriptions from doctors.

The thing I'm looking forward to most is democracy on the blockchain. It's obviously a long way off, but voting on political issues directly via a distributed network.

GPS trails and flight data for commercial drones.

Could a 51% attack mess with many of these records? For example, changing the ownership of licenses, Trademarks, property, etc.
Perhaps sidechains will be useful, since the BTC network is secure, but it seems like almost all alternative chains would have little true security.

Working on it. It's not that hard really, just have to link their accounting software... I mean it's regular business software just linked  together. Why have multiple instances of Receipts, Records, etc when it can be secure on a distributed Blockchain for all to check out as authorized. Mix Accounting Interface, Open Transactions, Bitmessage and a Blockchain, walla, Decentralized accounting; pay to process your records on the Blockchain, if the customer wants a receipt... they can have it, government wants to audit the books? sure, here's the guest key to our datablock, no papers, no fuss, no bs, just balancing the books one entry at a time.

Hey Thanks for posting, wow, that is an awesome list. A lot of things to play with yet on the horizon.... this is going to be fun.

How would that be implemented using the blockchain?

is it just me or the site is down?

And each business/sidechain doesn't necessarily need to be public-facing, just admins, accounts, etc., where the IRS, et al., can peek to make sure they got their share. Too tire to go into greater/better detail, but the I easily envision an accounting system working for all those involved.

Not sure how this could be done because in order to get people for maintaining the ledger you will need to reward them. It will be difficult when it comes to permits, certificates and other public records One way to have this done is to have these ledgers backed by crypto. For example this would apply towards commodities. Will be checking this thread to see what solution the community can think of

How can new bitcoin users trust a bitcoin service that's been up and down again and again?

good post
and tons we haven't thought of

bitcoins and altcoins, the best offshore banks which you control. lock 'em down!

I have an idea for doing decentralized websites using the blockchain. Though safecoin is probably a better place for such a task.

Those are all positive ideas, should there be a list of bad things can be done using blockchain?

That's real world purposes.  :)