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Re:BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron by nisa on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @02:11PM (#17349002)
In the end you don't need decentralisation for verifying integrity - there is and was a large body of research for verifying integrity of such records like timestamping services.
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Re:BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron by dozzie on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @03:58PM (#17349837)
Hint: blockchain is a timestamping service. What is new compared to the body of research you speak of is that it doesn't need trusted third party.
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