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This could be an area where the much hyped block chain technology actually makes sense. But don't ask me what the incentives would have to be for journalistic
by fauigerzigerk 7y ago
This could be an area where the much hyped block chain technology actually makes sense.
But don't ask me what the incentives would have to be for journalistic organisations to adopt the technology.
- stoicShell 7y agoFirst thing would be to de-correlate this 'news blockchain' entirely from any sort of 'coin', 'token', whatever 'currency' thing — a blockchain is a distributed database, period, 'crypto-coins' being just one application for this storage. There are several ways to do it then but a standard would likely emerge, as in: "we <publisher> commit to mirror-publish our content to ThePressChain." You'd likely store only text (say the raw html) on the blockchain though, so using links for pictures etc; which implies your CDN is archived publicly for later retrieval (I suppose a deal with archive.org or equivalent is in order to bolster such a paradigm).
- DSMan195276 7y agoWhat you're describing already exists - just have news groups publish to `github` or some other `git` server (They could even host their own), and then anybody who wants can clone it.
- trickstra 7y agoThey are not really eager to provide such searchability, but we can always scrape them and save in a git repo ourselves.
- blawson 7y agoAgree with this! I’ve been thinking it would have to start with publications that aren’t the massive sources, using this as an advantage, and see the reward of subscribers as big publications get caught for these sorts of practices.