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[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That proves it existed at a specific time in the past, not that it didn't exist before that. What's stopping a hash of the Mona Lisa on a block chain with today's date?

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It also doesn't materialize ponies out of nothing. It can't do everything, but surely you can see that there are a lot of situations where being able to say with confidence that "this picture existed in exactly this form at exactly this date" is a super useful thing?

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't prove when it was created, only that it existed. Previous poster /u/lolcatnip is talking about creation date

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

And that's all I'm saying that it does.

As I said, it's not perfection for every possible application. But it is still highly useful in many applications.