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A proof that the pok and its hash hasn't been altered since its creation.

• smt88 6y ago
  You can accomplish this with plain old cryptography. No blockchain needed. There are lots of ways to do it. One of them would be for Fuuture to publish the hash to literally anywhere. Public + cryptographically verifiable + distributed + append-only still does not equal blockchain, as long as we're defining blockchain as something that was not invented before 2009.
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  • space_rock 6y ago
    So these hashes are distributed. How do we know they haven't been altered since future reveal? How does one find the "true" dataset? Trust random people on the internet?
    • dnautics 6y ago
      no, since it's public, if you care so much about it, you keep a periodic snapshot of the hashes. So you're trusting yourself (and math). What's missing to be a "blockchain" in (what should be) the generally accepted definition is byzantine fault tolerance.
      • space_rock 6y ago
        Right so save some time and put the hashes in a Merkel tree and publish on the Bitcoin blockchain. Now the proof can be found trustlessly and the longest PoW points to the true dataset
  • ginger_beer_m 6y ago
    Once you're done building a working system to do the above, you'd have basically built a blockchain.
    • smt88 6y ago
      Using a very loose definition of blockchain, sure. For anything post-Satoshi, no. The extra governance layer that makes it a blockchain is also not trivial.