Do you think Bitcoin will ever need a standard way to verify real-world events?

I've been thinking about something recently and I'm curious what people here think.

Bitcoin does an incredible job of verifying ownership and transactions without trusting a third party.

But when an application needs to know whether something happened in the real world, things get messy.

For example:

  • Was a package actually delivered?
  • Did someone really visit a location?
  • Was an inspection completed?

Most systems seem to fall back to GPS, a centralized API or simply trusting whoever reports the data.

Do you think this is something Bitcoin should stay completely out of, or is there room for protocols that verify real-world events while using Bitcoin purely as a settlement layer?

Genuinely interested in hearing different opinions.

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