Station Newstand | The Stories of Our Blockchain Lives by Sylvia R.

We might also need to learn how to live with mistakes that are public and find a way to allow for the type of behavior that Joan Didion describes: “‘We were just crazy kids,’” they say without regret, and look to the future. The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.” In other words, we might have to learn t... See more

It’s easy to imagine that the requirements for truth-telling might fundamentally change. Narrative would need to be supported with transaction data. In fact, transaction data itself will likely become the narrative, and truth will be defined simply as a collection of transactions hashed and validated on the blockchain. 

If blockchains (and blockchain analysis tools) become sufficiently widely adopted, checking what someone says they did against what they actually did will be a trivial technical operation.