> I do reiterate that it is blindingly easy to pin a public hash to the > bitcoin blockchain that asserts the earliest publication of a document > or collection of documents, and that this is desperately needed, to > protect the accuracy of history when it is not safe.
The concern raised here relates to scaling, and here we disagree on the proper direction of Bitcoin. To me it seems clear that Bitcoin was designed to scale better than it has. It honestly looks like developers are arbitrarily avoiding storing much data on chain, with quickly shoehorned solutions like the lightning protocol. Bitcoin simply got big too fast. I believe it was intended to handle large data smoothly: not with single gigabyte blocks that every user must store, but with simplistically designed and well-backed decentralised propagation and storage of data. I see that not having happened due to mostly political issues, and that's unfortunate, but other chains have made strides here. I don't think satoshi was familiar with how people behave when they have a lot of money. _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
