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December 18, 2019, 03:21:55 AM |
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so, just kinda throwing this out there. it's probably already being done, i'm no professional, totally pulling this out of thin air, etc, but figured we could talk about it. maybe you guys know of something already in the works i can look at or something.
as we all know, the BTC blockchain gives us a record of every transaction that's ever happened and it more or less can't be altered. more accurately, it grows increasingly hard to alter the longer it exists, i suppose.
well, enter orwell's 1984, fake news, photoshop, deep fakes, etc.
there's a need for a verifiable, unalterable record of ...well, everything. history itself. it sort of already exists in the internet itself - nothing ever really gets deleted, right? but that's kind of ad hoc and random and really difficult to track down when it could be urgent. ideally we'd have something that could be referenced in courts, in politics, as absolute irrefutable, unarguable, hard fact. "at this time, in this place, this thing happened." full stop, period, end of.
no more editing someone out of a photo with a leader, like the soviets famously did. sure they could edit the photo and share it like it was the original, but then someone comes along and shows, nope, that's fake, and here's the proof. a hard record of fact checking, basically.
i'm not exactly sure on HOW this would work mind you - is it some sort of bot scraping articles for dates, events, pictures and video? well if so, how do we know the articles are posting real things, and not, say, the onion and it's satire?
and obviously there's issues with why would people bother to mine it and build the blockchain - i don't mean this as some kind of "TruthCoin" - not to mention who'd manage it to determine what goes into the record.
and it also obviously couldn't verify any event that happened before it was activated. you'd have to start from zero, really, just like BTC's value...
anyway - you get the idea. a record, via blockchain, that's about factual events and proves they happened and can't be altered.
can it be done? is it being done? SHOULD it be done? how could it be done?
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