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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Merits 5 from 2 users
Re: Storing data on the bitcoin blockchain
by
gmaxwell
on 18/06/2020, 14:42:07 UTC
⭐ Merited by TheArchaeologist (3) ,ETFbitcoin (2)
There already is illegal images on the bitcoin BTC blockchain,
No there are not. People have falsely claimed there were, but that was just bamboozled media people talking about simple URLs to long dead hidden services.

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This is not just about private individuals storing their favourite cat pictures though, you need to think bigger. How about law firms storing important legal information? Think bigger.
Doing so would be somewhere between entirely pointless and professional misconduct.

Ultimately the Bitcoin system doesn't exist to shove your data retention costs onto others-- Piling every proof-of-work quorum system in the world into one dataset doesn't scale.Existing nodes don't provide random access to the blockchain and if anything you should expect them to provide less in the future rather than more.

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The moment it would become a standard I would for sure turn off my node.
I don't give a flying fuck

When you originally created this thread "I don't give a flying fuck" was about what I thought of your proposal. Yet I kept my response matter of fact.  Too bad you didn't extend similar courtesy to other participants here.

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Ok that's my last post in this thread. Mod, can you please lock/delete this thread ? I'm clearly wasting my time.

As you wish.