California woman who drove with Google Glass beats traffic ticket

Re:California woman who drove with Google Glass beats traffi... by olalonde on Friday January 17, 2014 @04:20AM (#7074953)

In the future, people will pay a few cents to upload a hash of their video into the Bitcoin blockchain to prove the video was taken before a given date.

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Re:California woman who drove with Google Glass beats traffi... by sentenza on Friday January 17, 2014 @04:48AM (#7075014)

Seriously. That is an interesting application of bitcoin. Does that work with Bitcoin, or would it be neccessary to construct another "Coin" specifically for that purpose?

I'm highly sceptical of Bitcoin as currency, since there are so many conflicts between the technical properties of Bitcoin and the economics of currencies, but de-centralized verification of events and dates? _That_ sounds interesting.

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Re:California woman who drove with Google Glass beats traffi... by olalonde on Friday January 17, 2014 @05:17AM (#7075085)

It's actual possible today: http://www.proofofexistence.com/. It should work with other forks of Bitcoin as well.

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