Considering the huge potential Blockchain has to transform every industry, it's becoming a concern among many people whenever traditional jobs of today will be replaced by Bitcoin's core technology or not. After all, anyone can "notarize" their documents in a trustless manner in a safe and secure way. This makes me wonder if Blockchain technology will be able to replace notaries someday?
What are your thoughts?
Yes it will. But only for internet asset. You cant link real world asset to the blockchain. Let say you have a car, that was part of criminal activity. And is seized by government. But block chain says it is owned by some guy. What you will do? A fork? Miners know exactly who bought that car and is his. And they will never vote that it now belong to government. There are many similar cases. So not a notary in classical meaning.