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That makes sense, but also the implications are kind of scary 😂

I wonder if there’s a way to leverage Open Timestamps or similar, to prove the ~blockheight of when something was posted. Maybe a service that aggregates and merkelizes a bunch of notes, and puts some piece of data on chain.
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nobody 2y ago

Why is that scary, specifically. I ask because I don’t see it.

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MF_HODL 2y ago

The implication is that you could post anything as though it were posted in the past, and point to it as evidence, etc

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nobody 2y ago

That is an interesting possibility. I’d be interested in the trade offs. There is utility to being able to post date events as well.

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MF_HODL 2y ago

True. But for certain types of content, I could see value in hashing some data into a block that proves it was posted at some relative (blockheight) point in time

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nobody 2y ago

Even some sort of indicated time vs actual time idea would be interesting.