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Title is sensationalism. Actual paper title is "A Quantitative Analysis of the Impact of Arbitrary Blockchain Content on Bitcoin" — see also Illegal Numbers [0
by martindale 9y ago
Title is sensationalism. Actual paper title is "A Quantitative Analysis of the Impact of
Arbitrary Blockchain Content on Bitcoin" — see also Illegal Numbers [0].
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
- zeth___ 9y agoThe paper isn't wrong though. There are supposedly numbers that correspond to illegal jpg images in the bitcoin block chain.
- omginternets 9y ago> There are supposedly numbers that correspond to illegal jpg images in the bitcoin block chain. How did they come about? Do you have a source for this?
- throwawaylolx 9y agoThats's precisely what the paper linked in the OP describes?
- sctb 9y agoThanks, we've reverted the title from the submitted “Illegal content embedded in the blockchain” to that of the paper.