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Re:Bank of America trying to load up on patents for the tech... by lsseckman on Thursday December 31, 2015 @12:49PM (#10818685)
currently creating a smart contracts application on a private blockchain and came to a similar thought as your #2

> using pieces of Bitcoin

ECDSA is great, have you run across any db's using it? Seems like a great component to extract from the blockchain craze

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Re:Bank of America trying to load up on patents for the tech... by lordnacho on Sunday January 03, 2016 @05:12AM (#10830126)
Well, you can just glue a signature to a row of data manually. As long as you know how to concat/Merkle/hash the info together it provides the same guarantees.
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