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Re:Bitcoin Technology Piques Interest on Wall Street by brighton36 on Saturday August 29, 2015 @05:53PM (#10141449)
"Seeing" tampering is a completely different proposition than preventing tampering. Any good centralized architecture can demonstrate tampering. Google docs does this all the time.
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Re:Bitcoin Technology Piques Interest on Wall Street by Animats on Saturday August 29, 2015 @09:43PM (#10141983)
That requires trusting Google. The goal is to do this without a single trusted party.
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Re:Bitcoin Technology Piques Interest on Wall Street by brighton36 on Sunday August 30, 2015 @03:48PM (#10144290)
If detecting tampering needs to be done without trusting a third party, then md5sum has this figured out back in the early 80's
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