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Re:Tricks That Can Outsmart Deepfake Videos for Now by krastanov on Saturday October 20, 2018 @11:06PM (#18266556)
I am pretty sure that what you are calling a block chain is actually just a single hash or at most a Merkle tree. You do not need a consensus algorithm (PoW or PoS or whatever), i.e. you do not need a block chain if all you want is decentralized verification of a current or future publication.
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Re:Tricks That Can Outsmart Deepfake Videos for Now by kakarot on Sunday October 21, 2018 @04:47AM (#18267204)
I was just making an arbitrary suggestion based on previous work by proofofexistence.com. I didn't suggest it was the only way or the best way forward.

I realize that people all the time try to say "Blockchain would be great for ____" so you're probably a little hypersensitive and I get that, but the suggestion of a blockchain was arbitrary and tangential to the real point of my post, so I don't really feel like getting into it right now.

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