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I guess I make a thumbprint database. Anyone who submits a previously unseen thumbprint pair to the database gets a dollar sent to the account they specify. Tha
by cnees 4y ago
I guess I make a thumbprint database. Anyone who submits a previously unseen thumbprint pair to the database gets a dollar sent to the account they specify. That way, each thumbprint set is effectively worth one dollar, minus the trouble of submitting it.
Aggregators emerge to pay other people a bit less than a dollar for their prints (upon confirmation of uniqueness), and they leech off some of the money, but they distribute a lot of it and reach people and places I couldn't.
Some new problems to solve are
1. Can I avoid hosting and comparing uniqueness of eight billion thumbprint sets?
2. How do I avoid accepting fake, computer-generated thumbprints?
3. Is there a better alternative to thumbprints?
- memalign 4y agoIt might also be important to verify that the thumbs are attached to a living body…