South Korea introduced it’ll roll out blockchain-protected digital ‘vaccine passports’ to immunized residents, becoming a member of different nations introducing such certificates. This might permit vacationers to point out digital proof of vaccination.
Growth Bust co-host and blockchain skilled Ben Swann explains that South Korea needs “to guarantee that every time somebody is vaccinated their data is entered right into a blockchain.” The knowledge then lives within the blockchain, not a specific website or server, and subsequently it might’t be altered or modified.
“The query is that some human has to enter that data” and will simply enter names of people that weren’t truly vaccinated, Ben factors out. “Apart of that occuring, somebody can’t simply merely hack in and have the ability to alter blockchain, it might’t occur,” he says.
Ben additionally says there might be strong debates in some international locations, together with the USA, over whether or not or not vaccine passports are lawful.
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