📅 Original date posted:2013-06-15
📝 Original message:That is true, but someone is already running it as a service on the blockchain itself. See:
https://www.proofofexistence.com/
You can imagine similar services cropping up for things like torrents, sending btc tweets, etc. While I am not saying these things are particularly refined ideas in and of themselves, people should have an opportunity to play with them, and better testnet.
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On Jun 15, 2013, at 3:57 AM, "Luke-Jr" <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> Timestamping ("proof of existence") doesn't need a coin at all. Just collect
> all the hashes you need timestamped into a PoE merkle tree and add that to the
> merged mining MT. It's pretty simple and straightforward, just needs someone
> to implement it.
>
> On Saturday, June 15, 2013 12:09:09 AM Dennison Bertram wrote:
>> Have your seen 'proof of existence'? It's basically a bitcoin notary
>> service that proves a document existed before it gets inserted into the
>> blockchain. While a good idea- you could argue that it's blockchain spam
>> as well- especially if one were to adapt it to high volumes in the future
>> for notarizing permanently things like tweets (for example) or combining
>> it with something like colored coins. These are great ideas, but maybe
>> better suited to a proto bitcoin without needing to fashion a brand new
>> coin.
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