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Well, decentralization has benefits. It's just that we already have a system for keeping track of documents and their histories in a distributed manner and it i
by tormeh 7y ago
Well, decentralization has benefits. It's just that we already have a system for keeping track of documents and their histories in a distributed manner and it is called git.
- GTP 7y agoBut who guarantees the timestamp of a git commit? Hironically here's a blogpost suggesting that could be a good idea to timestamp those using a blockchain and explains how: https://petertodd.org/2016/opentimestamps-announcement https://petertodd.org/2016/opentimestamps-announcement :D The point here isn't to version documents, which the blockchain does not, but to have an independently verifiable timestamp.