Just to reinforce what you are saying, there were people doing this even in ancient Greece, see Plato's Gorgias. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1672
Locale information includes things like encodings to allow a human language to be stored as data. It is probably the case that the most common encoding is ASCII, with the most common modern encoding being UTF-8. If…
Is this any better than using pastebin? One may argue that banks are more trusted for storing money than pastebin is for data, but is there another reason?
Just to reinforce what you are saying, there were people doing this even in ancient Greece, see Plato's Gorgias. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1672
Locale information includes things like encodings to allow a human language to be stored as data. It is probably the case that the most common encoding is ASCII, with the most common modern encoding being UTF-8. If…
Is this any better than using pastebin? One may argue that banks are more trusted for storing money than pastebin is for data, but is there another reason?