Our collective memory and culture as humans are being moved digitally. Books, art, debates are all digital now. If something doesn’t exist in a physical form, how do you guarantee that someone won’t change it in the future.
By storing it in the most secure proof of work chain - you know that it will be the same so long as Bitcoin is still alive. Perhaps for a 1000 years.
Best example, is putting the Bible on there. As well as major historical events that are likely to be disputed in the future.
You can achieve this with cryptographic hashes and some off-chain storage mechanism. Corruption of the data is not the same as persistence of the data.
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Inside the blockchain we have Never gonna give you up from Rick Astley, honors to Saint Eligius among other interesting things stored forever and ever. Let's see what else can we store.
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