A Baby’s Video Birth Certificate Digitally Notarized on the Blockchain
Most people are well aware of how blockchain technology can be used to achieve all kinds of different needs. Most of the focus is on the financial sector these days, but this revolutionary technology can be the platform society needs to transition into a digital age. Notarizing the birth certificate of your daughter through blockchain technology is just one of the many examples. So many different aspects of our society still exist in the regular form of physical documents, bogged-down administrations, and time-consuming methods. Whenever somebody needs an officially notarized document from....
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