[coldtea]

>For blockchain, I couldn't find his Dutch handicap parking story via Google for more details so I don't know if a traditional central database would solve the same exact problem.

Maybe the "exact same problem" is the wrong thing to try to solve? It might not be a problem in the first place (by itself), just a re-formulation of the actual problem so that it's solvable by blockchain, which seems to be the author's point.