[Cryptography] Blockchain to Secure Nuclear Weapons?

Phillip Hallam-Baker phill at hallambaker.com
Fri Jan 13 09:03:44 EST 2017


On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 4:23 PM, ianG <iang at iang.org> wrote:

> On 11/10/2016 15:12, Jim Windle wrote:
>
>> DARPA looking at uses of blockchain technology, including securing
>> nuclear weapons.
>>
>> http://qz.com/801640/darpa-blockchain-a-blockchain-from-guar
>> dtime-is-being-verified-by-galois-under-a-government-contract/
>>
>
> While I don't know for sure, it's not clear to me that Guardtime
> technology is blockchain.  It's more like hashchain, but that is something
> that has been discussed many times going back to the early 1990s.
>

Everything is blockchain now, even things that aren't. The insanity of
blockchain is proof of wasting electricity*. Take that away and you have an
object model in which the current value of any object is that last value
registered in the blockchain which is slightly more than Harber and
Stornetta but not much.

Phill


[*] ​Rumor has​ it that Bitcoin was actually designed by Charles Koch as
part of his James Bond villain scheme to destroy the earth with global
warming.
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