5 ms·
This sets a scary precedent regarding reporting and the capture of history in general. If all of a few decades worth of music history disappears due to a compan
by subsubzero 2y ago
This sets a scary precedent regarding reporting and the capture of history in general. If all of a few decades worth of music history disappears due to a companies financial health(no company is around forever). We basically lose that data forever and history is wiped out. With most news data now being online this could happen to any news going forward and a great loss to society. Internet Archive does a good job(they are a very small outfit) but there should be a organization (non-profit that all news/media sites could pay into) that would archive everything ever created online so as to have this content available for future generations.
- superidiot1932 2y agoBlockchain solves this, it is possible to fund immutable data archival and ordering using a blockchain cryptocurrency.
- janalsncm 2y agoUnless you’re referring to storing all of this information on-chain (and not a reference to it), no it does not.
- superidiot1932 2y agoYes that is the idea, there already are successful blockchains such as arweave that functions like this.
- Dylan16807 2y agoThere's potential there. You only need to store part of the chain and there's an incentive to keep rare blocks. But the mining is optimized for storing as big of a fraction of the chain as possible, so I worry that the future of it devolves into a few big nodes and everyone else dropping out.
- snapcaster 2y agoNo it doesn't you're misinformed good luck avoiding scammers out there
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoIt's possible to fund an immutable data archive using a normal trust. It's possible to verify immutability with traditional hashes. What is blockchain going to add?
- superidiot1932 2y agoIncentives to mine it with storage hardware and maintain the ledger with ponzi-like economics