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Speculating here, but carbon dating is potentially one useful vector for protecting against forgery/manipulation. Conversely, once something is digitized, you c
by sp527 3y ago
Speculating here, but carbon dating is potentially one useful vector for protecting against forgery/manipulation. Conversely, once something is digitized, you cannot incontrovertibly authenticate the origin time of the relevant bit flips and you also introduce the (now seemingly just on the horizon) possibility of AI-optimized digital forgeries that are indistinguishable from originals. That's off the top of my head, but the OP may have further insight.
- woah 3y agoIf only there was a technology for storing unforgeable timestamps in a way that didn't depend on the honesty and competence of any one person or organization
- Avicebron 3y agoIt would have to have some intrinsic mechanism to encourage people to store and interact with the system though..maybe people could prove they worked on it and then trade it for other things of value?
- calebh 3y agoYou can trivially implement this using a timestamp authority (TSA). This can be done without the blockchain, and there are several free publicly available services that do this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping
- woah 3y agoSeems like there's no issue with digitized wills then