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Re:Kodak’s Dubious Blockchain Gamble by Apocryphon on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @10:05PM (#16270996)
I think you're missing my point. The original concept framed by Kodak was protecting IP, so that freelance photographers or whomever (likely large corporations) don't have their pictures re-used. But I'm saying that blockchain watermarking could have greater immediate appeal to the public when it's reputations and lives on the line. So journalism organizations and media corporations end up buying watermark protected hardware to ensure the veracity of content.
Re:Kodak’s Dubious Blockchain Gamble by duskwuff on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @02:48AM (#16272230)
But what value does "blockchain" add here? What is so special about photo watermarking that makes a traditional database unsuitable to the purpose?

If anything, the transaction rate limits of current blockchain technology seem like they'd be hugely limiting for this application...

Re:Kodak’s Dubious Blockchain Gamble by syntaticSugar on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @06:23AM (#16273078)
I guess you could say that the fact it's using a block chain, any form of processing the transfer of ip/rights of the hash desired, can be out sourced. Bitpay, meta mask,. Etc

Side note I see no reason to use pow for this application, pos seams like a more appropriate security tradeoff