I was thinking about
https://www.proofofexistence.com/ and was wondering if it's possible to create a transaction that is either all fees that includes a manual hash in it or a transaction that includes a hash that is somehow up for grabs by anyone after a set amount of time or even a transaction that is spendable by whoever notices it first?
Would doing that allow hashes to be stored yet still allow the transaction to be pruned for thin clients? Or would the blockchain bloat be pretty much the same?