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proof of existence #41

Open cryptonaut420 opened 9 years ago

cryptonaut420 commented 9 years ago

not a priority. It would be cool to have built in "proof of existence" that you could optionally have (probably for a fee) when you submit articles for publishing. The basic idea is that a hash of the article is submitted and encoded on the blockchain, and then the resulting transaction ID can be used as proof the exact article existed at a point of time. We might be able to do this locally with the bitcoind API, or else we could use http://www.proofofexistence.com/

this could be extended into a dedicated page which can just do general proof of existence for any data

Bitofthis commented 9 years ago

@cryptonaut420 Yes Please. So Often I have written an article and another venue takes my original research without so much as a "hat tip" Some of these venue(s) sometimes are able to get more traffic with their articles and it appears that they broke the story---when in fact they didn't.

I have been hoping this exact idea would be rolled out on LTB

cryptonaut420 commented 9 years ago

yeah, I figured you would be one to appreciate it :)

mdw commented 9 years ago

Would you guys be amenable to a solution like this (not functioning site, just proof of concept) http://poa.mikeward.net

I'm using Namecoin as the blockchain, since it's a wonderful decentralized key-value store (up to 1k) I can absolutely prove that I authored every single article I've written for LTB.

Also note that I think it's a weak scheme to simply insert the hash of an article into the chain. What I'm doing in the POA example (proof of authorship) is signing (not encrypting) the article content with my private key. Insert the hash of THAT into the blockchain. This is stronger proof because only I could have signed this using my private key.