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I would suggest that we shouldn't ever rely on digital archiving of important information. There should always be a copy of the information in analog, that can
by strawcomb 9y ago
I would suggest that we shouldn't ever rely on digital archiving of important information. There should always be a copy of the information in analog, that can be dated & verified with analog methods.
- mwaitjmp 9y agoThis is one feature a blockchain excels at. People have stored the Bitcoin white paper in the blockchain. Anyone can then download it, and verify it is the untouched original.
- jl6 9y agoYou don’t really need the huge overhead of a block chain for that. You just need a hash and some redundant storage.
- SXX 9y agoBlock chain still handy to verify that no one tried to rewrite history and pretrnd hash was different in first place. And hashes on larger documents are never safe from collisions.
- sethgecko 9y agoAnd to trust the guy who is storing the hash?
- drusepth 9y agoYou could always put the hash on the blockchain. :)
- strawcomb 9y agoGoing fully digital with info, verifying with blockchain is all well and good, until a malicious actor forbids/prevents people from using blockchain somehow. if you've gone fully digital at that stage, you're in trouble
- ynniv 9y agoOnly until the hash is broken.
- Spooky23 9y agoMedia only solves certain problems. Fundamentally, it’s also a custody issue. Storing archive material with multiple custodians is essential.