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by arethuza 3445 days ago
There have been schemes for trusted timestamping (e.g. based on PKI) around for a long time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping

NB Having worked in the area I find document security (particularly authenticity) to be a fascinating subject and its not inconceivable that a blockchain based solution could be interesting but I'd love to see how such a thing would actually work in practice and some kind of idea why it is better than earlier approaches.

"because blockchain" isn't really an argument.