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by blibble 153 days ago
> If you're trying to do peer-to-peer security, and you want to prove not only that the evil server hasn't forged anything (which you do with signatures) but also that it hasn't deleted anything legitimate, "throw a hash in the blockchain" really is the Right Way to solve that problem.

and it only requires the same electricity as a medium sized country to do it

continuously, forever