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Re: Using bitcoin for trusted timestamping?
by
ByteCoin
on 05/12/2011, 02:28:58 UTC
0-value outputs can be spent (uselessly)

You have a habit of identifying these interesting and useful corner cases Theymos!

One can then store 256bits in the "random" k value of this signature for every transaction spending those 0 coins back to itself! Anyone can read this information with a suitable patch to the client or some freestanding software.

ByteCoin