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Despotic leaders of sanctioned countries usually find
ways
around those sanctions if they are desperate enough—
Kim
Jung Un had an armored Mercedes Maybach delivered via
means of a half-dozen or so countries before it landed in
Pyongyang via way of Nakhodka port in Russia,
unbeknownst to
the hapless Germans who kindly built it
for
him.
Emails have secure handshaking methods of delivery
identification. Bitcoin remembers each transaction. Why
not require sea shippers to check in at each port they
stop
at, encode the port of entry in some handshake that also
encodes each container being shipped, offloaded, etc?
Rotterdam could then have some kind of handshake that
verifies where it’s cargo was offloaded and be certain it
wasn’t North Evilstan.
Ports could keep better records of authorized and
unauthorized shipments which could then be inspected.
Maybe they already do something like this.
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So far as I know, cryptography per se does not actually stop
anyone from lying. Could you provide more detail on how this
scheme would do so? |
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It might help a little for bulk shipments, but as [pert] points out, if some part of the supply chain is dishonest then it's pointless. |
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Huge quantities of weapons get shipped around despite all the alleged sanctions and safeguards. If you offer people money they will ignore the "rules" or find a way round them,and there's always a way round them. |
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The main problem is that you seem to have the wrong sort of humans. |
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[-] for idealism and wishful thinking. |
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Wouldn’t it be called a Britcoin? |
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What's offered is better traceability, including port
history, that can assist in smuggling efforts to
denied areas. Its not a perfect cure-all as ships can
always stop at non-participating ports and onload
and offload nonregistered cargo. But it could help
cut down sanctions violations perhaps, and be a tool
for slowing down trafficking. Containers that have
handshaking records that don't agree with the other
containers on board and the overall ship travel log
could be viewed with suspicion and opened for
examination. |
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They don't have to stop. Container contents can be swapped on board ship, quite easily. It happens all the time. |
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Often it's just because a reefer's broken down and the contents need to be moved to a spare - but it happens. |
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It's called the "Sovereign", a traditional British gold coin, untraceable ... only used, of course, when you put profit before morality and cheerfully sell weapons to friend and foe alike. Not that that ever happens ... |
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I thought Krugerrands where more common for that [8th]? but
yes ... |
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I oppose all opposition to privacy. That which can track the purchases of $evilguy can and will eventually be used to track my own. |
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Of course; criminals are much more trustworthy than governments. |
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Pretty sure this is already implemented by the guys
who trade commodity futures:
1. Trader agrees to buy a shipload of commodity at
some date and some port
2. Trader agrees to sell a shipload of that same
commodity at some other date and port
3. Contracts are executed to insure that the cargo
goes where it was contracted to go
4. Profit (maybe) |
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If by "unauthorized" you mean "unauthorized by
governments affiliated with the international bank of
settlements", then I don't think monitoring is your
biggest problem..... |
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But those are all disjointed from the ship, containers,
their travel route. and such. My system would travel
along with and be affected by every port of call and
transfer event. |
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