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by pclmulqdq 1309 days ago
By the way, this chain of documents with precise information is a blockchain in itself. You don't need another one. Particularly not for disseminating information, where it doesn't really solve any problems. Publish those documents wherever you want, and include the appropriate information so that they are not wrong. That's a blockchain.

I will add that "don't make stupid mistakes" is a key tenet of cryptography in general - and blockchains in specific.
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kuramitropolis 1309 days ago
>Publish those documents wherever you want

And where would one publish such documents, so that they would not be under the control of any single party?

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pclmulqdq 1309 days ago
I publish them somewhere I have control, like my website, and ask archiving services to archive that page. I don't need them to be under nobody's control.

If someone compromises my blockchain keys, it's about as bad as if someone compromises my website (in terms of the actual attack vectors).

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kuramitropolis 1307 days ago
Unless you go full self-hosted, your website is also under the control of your hosting provider and DNS registry. You implicitly trust those, until you don't. (See the Linode/Itch.io gaffe from the other day.)

And what if your use case requires you to prove to others that you (or your publisher) can't surreptitiously and arbitrarily alter the information you published?

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