The prior blog entry looked at blockchain and its aspects of documenting immutable truth of things over time. Truth is an elusive but good thing but the more I wrote about it in relationship to blockchain the more elusive it became. There were some good thoughts in the entry, or at least good food for thought but in chasing them they went in too many directions. Some into the wild blue yonder and I could only watch them fade in the distance.
Bringing it all back to earth I'll try to grab a hold on the blockchain concept using pattern matching. The this thing is like that thing approach that hopefully arrives at: Yeah, I can get that. The sort of how do you explain this to your grandmother approach.
Video is a blockchain thing that presents evidence of the real world. Historical evidence of the state of something in view at the time. Real time monitoring at the "eternal now" instant. Using my "get it down to the the granular smallest unit level" thinking the granular slice of time that a video looks at a thing in 1/30th or 1/60th of a second segments of real time. The keeness of video eyesight is variable in terms of pixel resolution. Happy are those that have the latest and greatest degree of 4k TV resolution. My iPhone can take 4K video.
Every 1/30 or 1/60 of a second segment of video adds to the last one. Apply a time code to document the succession of frames and they become locked in history. It is a blockchain. It can be manipulated, edited, deleted. Even if it records the state of visible objects in time there is ambiguity in the meaning interpretation of the actual events recorded.
In addition to recording events in 1/30th or 1/60th of a second a camera can also record its geographic location in real time depending on the methodology used. It can also transmit that location locked into the blockchain of the video as well as the time taken and the sound.
Perhaps, off the top of my head, video has made the greatest contribution to the advancement of blockchain recorded "truth" growth. It may be the recording of scripted reality on a movie set or real reality. Either way it can be looked at as a blockchain thing. A slice of documented reality at an instant in time locked into a history record that for the length of video segment shot locks one from after another into the lock step blockchain.
At this point I wonder if anyone has looked at video from the blockchain frame of reference. Google tells me there are many videos about blockchain but no explanation of blockchain using video as an example. It is hard to find that specific idea.
Simply put, and I hope you get it now that I have framed it: "Video is a blockchain". That in quotes has never been indexed by Google. I therefore again make a claim to fame and all the prerogatives that grants me in bragging rights for being the first to express a word phrase that has an associated meaningful simple worthwhile conceptual thought that was mine drawn by me out of the creative universe into the real world.
I like it. Actually, a full implementation of blockchain to video recording by Ethereum might be an important application to the meta data already recorded about the video frame. Uploaded to a public video blockchain ledger. It has been proposed to protect intellectual property rights with blockchain technology. It would seem applicable to security camera recording to lock in blockchain metadata to record the validity truth of the video frame.
From this link:
"A blockchain-enabled security camera, on the other hand, can
continuously verifies its unique identity and proving that the raw video
files sent back to the cloud are indeed captured by this particular
camera, that it's not been compromised or forged."
Great idea!
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