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Those are "easily" manipulated if the issue is important enough to someone powerful enough. Sure, you could carpet-bomb and publish your hash on many different
by leppr 7y ago
Those are "easily" manipulated if the issue is important enough to someone powerful enough. Sure, you could carpet-bomb and publish your hash on many different platforms under jurisdictions with competing interests, but at this point you've just invented a poor man's blockchains.
Blockchains are the systematization and democratization of that strategy. And those points are what technology is all about.
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Sure, to write our next shared article we can just have our Word files and call-up each other and exchange paragraphs over WhatsApp. Yet for some reason some people nerd out on unintuitive over-engineered CRDTs. That can't be useful to anyone, can it?
- root_axis 7y ago> Those are "easily" manipulated if the issue is important enough to someone powerful enough Perhaps in theory, but in practice it's not really true, especially with regard to the nature of information that is worthwhile to censor; the kind of situation where the powers-that-be would hack twitter to manipulate the timestamp of a hash string are very far-fetched.