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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?

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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?

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

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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.

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