Whether monetization can be done is doubtful on a purely legal level (and may we never conflate what is lawful and what is good), and the question of whether, in general, it should be done is a purely academic one without any practical purpose. The issue at hand then, it seems to me, is whether it s...

Blockchains are an excellent tool for solving specific problems I'd say even this is giving them too much credit :-P, but everything else you've said in this thread has been spot on. As for the main topic, the problem is ultimately that the data needs to be stored somewhere, and if you can't - or w...