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And why exactly do you need a blockchain for this?

• willio58 8y ago
  Woops! He mentioned blockchain so now the pile-on from HN anti-blockchainers is coming! I’m mostly joking but it seems that blockchain is a topic that people on HN know they’ll get upvotes for if they act like it’s the dumbest thing ever. I don’t personally know that this person would require blockchain for any part of their idea, but this is just an observation.
• goldcd 8y ago
  Wouldn't have to be blockchain, of course. What I was wanting would be 'somewhere' all podcast players could write back what you've been doing with them. Of course the "global podcast tracking organization" could spontaneously form and expose a ReST service to correlate the same data. Then undoubtedly would need some funding, so maybe charge advertisers for access. Just liked the lighter weight initial idea of building the ledger and then leaving the advertisers/public to decide what to do with it. Or to look at it another way - open-source "Nielsen-like" data, created solely for consumption of digital media. Although cost of implementation is far lower (don't have to install boxes on TVs, or ask what adverts you saw in the paper) - but still we just seem to have proprietary stuff and a bazillion cookies on every website.