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Blockchain would not be the right tech if you don't need decentralised trust.

Write once media on a server is what you want.



Or even a signed hash against a confirmed/known/distributed public key.

Blockchain is only useful in a decentralized + adversarial context where there is a need to remove one-another's ability to game a given system. And even then, it doesn't imply a perfect security around it. Since it won't stop theft, breach, scams or other vectors.


>Write once media on a server is what you want

How does that solve this problem:

>[company will] go out of business and take down the servers with it


Open-source it, publish it somewhere or make it a bittorrent. Using blockchain as a hosting solution feels like a misuse.


distributed public key, and a private-signed hash of the dataset.


How do you know that the dataset is the most up to date version?

Maybe some sort of globally distributed time-stamping mechanism? Oh hey look, it's a blockchain.


Or... the source of record can publish an xml file or something when there's updates to the signed diff... rss. No slow consensus model needed.

If you aren't in an adversarial context with multiple publishers, you don't need blockchain.


> source of record

How is this published? On a single server somewhere? What country would you put it in? A friendly one I hope. Also one that won't block access to other countries that it might have petty disagreements with in the future. It might be a good idea for it to be replicated across a number of servers across the internet. We call those "nodes" in the blockchain space.


> We call those "nodes" in the blockchain space.

Mirrors existed long before blockchain.


Blockchain, the new uber-tech-hammer.. everyone gets nailed.


> Write once media ...

Like publishing merkle tree hash in a few daily newspapers.


Are there any frameworks/platforms for this?


have you heard of txt files?

If you want to proof you didn't temper with the historic data, publish a daily hash in some newspapers.


So you're suggesting that publishing a hash in a newspaper every day is a better solution than a digital ledger? This is peak buttcoiner logic. That actually used to be done [1], because Blockchain are valuable, but not anymore because digital versions are more scalable, efficient, reliable, global, trustless etc. Etc.

1. https://www.newsbtc.com/news/bitcoin/first-instance-of-block...


Actually I would say that that is exactly what blockchain does, except as a protocol and relying on a network rather than a newspaper. Actually I might use this to explain blockchain to people on a base level.


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