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Blockchains can be used for cryptography time-stamping. I’ve always had a suspicion that governments and large companies would prefer a world without hard cryp
by alchemist1e9 3y ago
Blockchains can be used for cryptography time-stamping.
I’ve always had a suspicion that governments and large companies would prefer a world without hard cryptographic proofs. After wikileaks they noticed DKIM can cause them major blowback. Somehow general public isn’t aware all the emails were proven authentic with DKIM signatures and even in fairly educated circles people believe the “emails were fake” but it’s not actually possible.
- PeterisP 3y agoQuite the opposite, governments and large companies even explicitly run services for digital timestamping of documents - if I wanted to potentially assert some facts in court, I'd definitely prefer having that e-document with a timestamp notarized from my local government service instead of Bitcoin, because while the cryptography is the same, it would be much simpler from the practical legal perspective, requiring less time and effort and cost to get the court to accept that.