[NetBehaviour] Facecoin

Rob Myers rob at robmyers.org
Mon Jan 20 03:01:36 CET 2014


On 19/01/14 05:59 PM, Rob Myers wrote:
> 
> One of the things that Bitcoin (and public key cryptography) does is to
> tackle the problem of authenticity. Rather than certificates you have
> cryptographic signatures. Crypto signing instances of net art is a way
> of asserting their authenticity. Crypto signing them with an edition
> number is a way of asserting their limited edition status.

And hashing all this into the Bitcoin blockchain is a way of both
proving its existence and timestamping it:

http://www.proofofexistence.com/

- Rob.




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