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Why wouldn't they just embed the hash of the message, or even the hash of a chain of messages? (AFAIK people have been doing this for a while for other applicat
by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
Why wouldn't they just embed the hash of the message, or even the hash of a chain of messages? (AFAIK people have been doing this for a while for other applications).
There was a much more sensible attempt at this with bitmessage [0] but anonymity and security guarantees are hard, and everyone receives everything is a really expensive strategy for a messaging protocol.
tl:dr those that don't research prior work are bound to create useless stuff.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitmessage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitmessage
- throwaway2016a 10y agoI'm not sure this is the same thing. Bitmessage has a different use case (person to person messages).
- forgotpwtomain 10y agoYou can send bitmessages that are entirely public as well see 'Chans'.
- throwaway2016a 10y agoThank you for clarifying. I did not realize that. I have a bunch of questions but I won't turn this into Reddit :) I'll just go off and research