lime!

alternative joke

C++: “Hey, what’s your name?”
Python: *grabs C++* “what is my name?”

i thought you were talking about independent verification of each frame of a video and storing it in a block chain to accompany that file, so that’s my bad on missing the point.

but with using “the” blockchain, we’re still dealing with the problem of massive emissions to keep it running, except now there’s no profit motive. or rather, that’s already true for a lot of things so it would need some sort of verification token to incentivise actually including our video hashes in the calculation. i think the ethereum people call it “gas money”. so it would be pay-to-verify.

an alternative is to have a foundation like the internet archive host the verified hashes. way less energy use, and they need the money more anyway.

i thought we were talking about the opposite situation, archival.

so in this situation we’re not actually talking about using a block chain, as in a progressive hashing function, but the blockchain, as in a massive network of computers used to verify anything.

buh, i mean, what would it add over just a single hash?

surely so does a block chain? at the heart of it a block chain is just a series of hashes too.