Blockchain-based systems can be designed to help with conflict resolution in civil matters. The main functionality used here is the independent timestamping service.
If a picture is published on Hive at 18h00 (CEST) on 13.06.24, it means that whatever is in that picture was in the state displayed at least until the point in time when the picture (IPFS Url to be precise) reached the blockchain.
If then a second picture is taken of the same object, and it displays a different state, ot means that the change in state could not have happened PRIOR to the time stamp of the first picture.
So here is a guy who parked his silver BMW X5 with German plate ZW KA 21 (Zweibrücken in Saarland) irregularly. Nothing might come of it, he might enter his car from the passenger side and jumping over the gearbox stick.
Then again, he might think of doing something stupid. In case he does something stupid, the blockchain records the state BEFORE he does.
Now the soft spot of this is the "lower bound": these pictures could not have been taker AFTER the moment they were posted on the blockchain, they might as well have been taken 10 years ago.
This is why I should have taken them directly from ecency app rather than taking them with the phone camera and uploading them to ecency later.
