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In addition to bills, there is justice.
As early as 2016, Qianxin.com, a judicial authentication platform, issued the first electronic evidence judicial authentication based on blockchain technology.
On June 28, 2018, the Hangzhou Internet Court adopted the plaintiff’s blockchain-based electronic data for evidence storage provided by Baoquan. This was the first time in the country that it confirmed that electronic data used for blockchain technology has legal effect.
On September 3 of the same year, the Supreme People’s Court promulgated the "Regulations on Several Issues Concerning the Trial of Cases in Internet Courts", in which Article 11 stated that "the electronic data submitted by the parties shall be verified by electronic signatures, credible timestamps, and hash values. If the authenticity of evidence collection, fixation, and tamper-proof technical means such as verification, blockchain, or electronic evidence collection platform can be proved, the Internet court shall confirm."
In November of this year, the nation’s first criminal case of blockchain deposit evidence was pronounced at the Shangyu District Court in Shaoxing, Zhejiang.
In this case, the defendant Wang defrauded others in 176 cases in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places in the name of borrowing money, for a total of 9,993 yuan.
Although the amount of fraud is not large, due to the large number of victims and scattered all over the country, if the relevant evidence is recorded in the form of traditional optical discs and transferred between public security, prosecution and law, the transfer process is too cumbersome, and it is difficult to guarantee that the data and information will not be damaged or will not be destroyed. tamper.
In this trial, the Shangyu District Court and the Ant Blockchain team used blockchain technology to encrypt the data and pass the hash value comparison to ensure the authenticity of the evidence.
From the first blockchain judicial appraisal to the first blockchain evidence, from the Supreme Court’s promulgation of relevant regulations to the trial of the country’s first blockchain criminal evidence deposit case.
In just a few years, blockchain technology has "founded a firm foothold" in the legal field by virtue of its own advantages such as non-tamperability and traceability.
However, the pace of blockchain technology in the legal field does not stop there.
On September 9, 2018, the Beijing Internet Court "Tianping Chain" was officially completed and put into operation.
On September 18 of the same year, the judicial blockchain of the Hangzhou Internet Court was officially launched, becoming the first court in the country to apply blockchain technology in trial work.
This means that as long as the parties to the dispute can submit complete and credible evidence, many disputes do not need to go to the court under the witness of the chain institutions, and the two parties can directly negotiate and resolve them.
From subtle to comprehensive, from Hangzhou to the whole country, blockchain technology may play a more important role in the legal field in the future.