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[–] BitSound@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

There's no goalpost-shifting, the evil maid is still getting your keys. I'm not sure what you're not getting here.

The point is that the system is useful for exactly nobody, because you still have to trust that someone hasn't had their private keys compromised via an evil maid attack, and publishing timestamps on a blockchain is irrelevant to the problem.