You're right that reaching full usefulness requires ubiquity, but achieving it requires solving adoption challenges that may be insurmountable. Billions of unau

You're right that reaching full usefulness requires ubiquity, but achieving it requires solving adoption challenges that may be insurmountable. Billions of unauthenticated images already exist, but establishing truth going forward—even if only in certain areas—still has immense value. Your point that an authenticated image can still be a forgery through staging is correct. However, that's been true for much longer than our current crisis and the results have been far more manageable. Hardware attestation doesn't solve truth, but it's a necessary starting point. The honest answer: This solves a real problem, but implementation barriers may be insurmountable. I actually first imagined this framework over a year and a half ago and tried shopping it around, hoping a utility patent would motivate implementation. No one was interested in solving a problem with such a big question mark around reaching the end game. I'm publishing as prior art because if legal/regulatory momentum does emerge, I don't want authentication monopolized. But you're right to be skeptical. The fact you've had these conversations for 20+ years highlights the enormity of the problem. That said, we also haven't had blockchain for that long, and it's remarkably well suited to this application (way more than currency, in my opinion). If I figure out how to stuff everything back in Pandora's box, I'll let you know where to send the check.