On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Flavien Charlon <flavien.char...@coinprism.com> wrote: > Storing only a hash > is fine for the most basic timestamping application, but it's hardly enough > to build something interesting.
No, storing only a hash is enough for ALL timestamping applications. If you need to broadcast more data then we're not talking about timestamping anymore, but rather proof of publication. Unfortunately (and as it has been already mentioned) many applications don't need proof of publication and yet they are just using the blockchain as a convenient transport mechanism, but that's highly inefficient. It's like if you sent all your mails to all the existing email addresses with the metadata "to be read by: destinat...@yourhost.com". It wouldn't make any sense and it wouldn't scale. A url definitely looks like something that doesn't belong in the chain. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
