Maybe we'll see a solid societal use case for zero-knowledge proofs here, establishing one had a set of documents at a given date without revealing them.

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_bent a day ago | parent | next [-]

you can just write a doc with your proof/idea, hash it and post that hash on twitter

	▲	mejutoco 10 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Not so easy. The problem is that someone can "just" generate a lot of documents with different or contradicting predictions or idea and then selectively release some.
	▲	soulofmischief a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yes, you can. So maybe we'll see an adoption of that paradigm, or another. The value of a ZKP is that you can optionally prove some facts up front about the file, whereas a normal hash is all-or-nothing. You can't reveal part of the information because you need the entire contents to properly verify the hash.

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mjd a day ago | parent | prev [-]

ceiiinosssttuv

	▲	soulofmischief a day ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks for putting me onto this, that was new to me. And of course Huygens was all over this idea.