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1. igor (igor@herds.eu)'s status on Monday, 11-Jun-2018 01:01:09 EDT igor
   The Vast Potential for #Blockchain in #Libraries.
   
   http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-vast-potential-for-blockchain-in.html
   
   #irony
   1. Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Monday, 11-Jun-2018 05:55:42 EDT Tomas SA2TMS

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      @igor Doesn't seem to go into how this is relevant for libraries. What would you hash for example? Specific scans of books? PDFs in case there's a digital original? Maybe source .tex files too..
      
      I guess all libraries could try to cooperate on something like a git or hg repo with all the metadata + scans/PDFs, in a federated manner
      1. igor (igor@herds.eu)'s status on Monday, 11-Jun-2018 08:53:17 EDT igor

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         @tomas The irony of this blog post is:
         
         "There is absolutely no use for "blockchain technology" in libraries. NONE. Zip. Nada. Fuhgettaboutit. Folks who say otherwise are either dishonest, misinformed, or misleadingly defining "blockchain technology" as all the wonderful uses of digital signatures, cryptographic hashes, peer-to-peer networks, zero-knowledge proofs, hash chains and Merkle trees."
         
         :D
         1. Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Monday, 11-Jun-2018 09:39:06 EDT Tomas SA2TMS

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            @igor But blockchain technology *is* those things. Guess I'm in the third category :]