Whistleblower Ledger?

[gredinger]

In theory, a whistleblower would be able to publish their complaint to a public ledger.

With a secured distributed public ledger, corporations wouldn't be able to prevent whistleblowers from embedding their complaints.

In reality; anyone would be able to make a complaint with as much as text as they want. The issue would be sorting real complaints vs fake complaints [meant to overwhelm the system, especially for non-centralized crypto].

The record couldn't be deleted or suppressed once published. Media could try to suppress the statements made in the public ledger, but anyone who downloads the entire ledger would have access to read all complaints.

Has anyone gave this any thought?

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[TryNinja]

I mean, there is even child porn on the Bitcoin blockchain (sadly ) so you’re right. They can’t shutdown the entire network because tx abc123 has a few bytes that represent a string which they dislike.

[pooya87]

I mean, there is even child porn on the Bitcoin blockchain (sadly ) so you’re right.

That is a lie. There is no such thing on bitcoin blockchain. You can barely include 80 bytes of arbitrary data in a transaction output! Posting a link to redirect people who visit that link to some illicit contents doesn't mean the bitcoin blockchain contains those contents. For example if someone posts the link to some illegal website on bitcointalk you can't claim that bitcointalk contains illegal content.

[TryNinja]

That is a lie. There is no such thing on bitcoin blockchain. You can barely include 80 bytes of arbitrary data in a transaction output! Posting a link to redirect people who visit that link to some illicit contents doesn't mean the bitcoin blockchain contains those contents. For example if someone posts the link to some illegal website on bitcointalk you can't claim that bitcointalk contains illegal content.

I’m fairly sure there is. Not necessarily a single tx where its 80 bytes of OP_RETURN will render a image, but there are many ways one could do that.

http://www.righto.com/2014/02/ascii-bernanke-wikileaks-photographs.html

You can even split the image in chunks between a bunch of txs.

[NotATether]

I mean, there is even child porn on the Bitcoin blockchain (sadly ) so you’re right.

That is a lie. There is no such thing on bitcoin blockchain. You can barely include 80 bytes of arbitrary data in a transaction output! Posting a link to redirect people who visit that link to some illicit contents doesn't mean the bitcoin blockchain contains those contents. For example if someone posts the link to some illegal website on bitcointalk you can't claim that bitcointalk contains illegal content.

And this is why it's not good to expand ledgers to contain massive amounts of arbitrary content per block.

Because people can upload pretty much anything they want/can (for example, Command-and-control malware stuff) on decentralized blockchains without some kind of self-regulation or external regulation.

[BlackHatCoiner]

This reminds me of:  What happens in a copyright infringement scenario?

In reality; anyone would be able to make a complaint with as much as text as they want.

This isn't reality. This is pure theory.

Media could try to suppress the statements made in the public ledger, but anyone who downloads the entire ledger would have access to read all complaints.

Here comes free speech.

Has anyone gave this any thought?

Yes, it's undoubtedly expensive to save much text in the Bitcoin block chain and extremely difficult to extract it. It's mainly for transacting bitcoins and even that is tackled with second layer solutions. Can you explain me why would you want to state your complain publicly?