Ability to pay with a credit card to upload private files to the blockchain would be really cool for non-bitcoiners who would like a place not owned by a single mega tech company or reliant on physical hardware to store files.
Post by twetch#8015
Interesting idea.
Seems like it'd avoid a lot of the legal ramifications of buying BSV outright as the customer isn't buying cryptocurrency, but access to a third-party archival service.
What the chain says
- Block
- 635 505
- Time
- 2020-05-18T20:11:40Z
- Signer
- 17wiCRZuJ9GWumnjr1shRfLVzRHd5BzDiR
- App
- twetch
- Type
- post
- Content type
- text/plain
- Name in tx
- twetch#8015
Fields the transaction did not carry are omitted. Open the payload to see the bytes as stored.
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Then again, as the uploader of user content, any company adopting this model would have to do Panopticon-like due diligence on whatever is being submitted.
Non-custodial apps don't have this problem. It's more than an ancillary benefit.