This is something I've been thinking about for a while. In the next few years we will cross a threshold. Past that point of no return, we will have significantly less certainty about the past. There's an opportunity to preserve much of that certainty simply by securely hashing as much existing content as possible.
Future historians will be in our debt, should we manage it in time.
History is being rewritten all the time. Fake videos are no more of a threat than partisan Wikipedia editors, Internet Archive wipeout campaigns, and state-sponsored school history books.
Can't see the benefit of keeping hashes if you lose content. Decentralized content preservation seems to be much more important.
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Can't see the benefit of keeping hashes if you lose content. Decentralized content preservation seems to be much more important.