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Re:Select a document and have it certified in the Bitcoin bl... by scottcanoni on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:17PM (#11633272)
Was I really the first to upload a TXT file that only had the words "hello world"?

https://proofofexistence.com/detail/b94d27b9934d3e08a52e52d7...

I was expecting to see someone else's document that had that text.

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Re:Select a document and have it certified in the Bitcoin bl... by xchaotic on Thursday May 05, 2016 @05:43AM (#11634835)
I suspect they are salting and using timestamp so that two similar documents don't get the same hash?
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