Inside Asian Gaming

IAG MAY 2019年5月 亞博匯 96 COLUMNISTS T rust between parties is expensive when it comes to the ownership of things that have intrinsic value, such as money or a house. That’s why we pay professionals like accountants and lawyers to create ledgers. When we want to determine the ownership of something or need to complete a transfer of ownership, we go to speak with these professionals and have them modify the records for us. This can be an expensive and time- consuming process. In the internet era, there is a simpler way to record ownership in a trusted and immutable way. This method is called “blockchain”. The concept is very simple: the ownership is recorded on the internet or intranet in blocks of data (hence 相 互之間的信任千金難買,特別是談到關於金錢或 者房屋等這些有內在價值的物件的所有權時。這 也是為甚麼我們會付錢請來會計師和律師等專 業人事為我們準備帳簿。當我們想釐清某物件的 所有權歸屬,或者需要完成所有權的轉移時,我 們會去找那些專業人士,請他們為我們修改記錄。這個過程既昂貴又 費時。 在這個互聯網的世代,有一種簡單一點的方法,可以把所有權以一 個可信賴又不能被改變的方式記錄起來。這方法就是「區塊鏈」。 這個概念非常簡單:某物件所有權的記錄在互聯網或內聯網中, 以加密的形式,化成一塊塊的數據(因此叫「區塊」)相互連結(就是「 鏈」的由來),因此不能被改變。而為了保證這些數據為所有人認可,這 同一堆區塊會被網絡中所有人在同一時間記錄下來。除非黑客可以同 時入侵網絡中的所有電腦,否則數據就不會被沒有得到授權的人士所 篡改。

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