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2024-07-02 19:40:56

picofarad on Nostr: Is sending yourself a copy of an idea still the best way to prove the timestamp of an ...

Is sending yourself a copy of an idea still the best way to prove the timestamp of an idea?

It seems if you're willing to rely on the government for timekeeping that way, there ought to be a way to use GPS - perhaps not.

How do you prove that something that didn't publicly exist on day X-1 existed on day X? you can't prove a negative, or something?

How about a cryptographic-secure hash published to - well, what? If the hash was in plain english (there are mappers).
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